Quotes about Cycle

The earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.

Above all, enter into the Church's liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into your body and soul.

All by itself the earth produces a crop—first the stalk, then the head, then grain that ripens within.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens"

To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to break down and a time to build,

All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty themselves, and fill again. The moon is born, and dies, and is reborn. Around millions of clocks swing hour hands, and minute hands, and second hands. Around goes the continual circle of the notes of the scale. Around goes the circle of night and day, the circle of weeks forever revolving, and of months, and of years.

sin-confess-sin-confess-sin-confess-and-sin-again cycle does not deal with all of reality. It