Quotes about restoration

Criss Jami - Killosophy

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Rob Bell -

Jesus is God's way of refusing to give up his dream for the world.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me .

A. Bartlett Giamatti - Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things — and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most.

Sharon Weil - and Awakeners Navigate Change

Healing is essential for lasting change. ...healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separa

Criss Jami - Killosophy

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

Reconnect with nature and be restored.

Bill Willingham - Vol. 18: Cubs in Toyland

Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

Repent, return and be restored by Jesus Christ.

Sunday Adelaja -

A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

In times of solitude, I have find rest for my soul and uphold the glory of inner peace.

Sunday Adelaja -

Christians, as messengers of God should bring restoration to this earth, become the people who can reform society and the country

Sunday Adelaja -

Let us restore trust back to our society

Riisa Renee - Breaking the Silence

This in essence is my goal. To set an example by doing what is good. If I live openly and honestly, I set an example of virtue, humanness, restoration, and healing. I give others permission to join me on my journey despite the fear of failure or the rejection it might elicit when they know they are not alone in their experience. The more of us who amass the courage to embark openly on this path, the more normal this experience becomes, effectively eliminating the tactic of shame and isolation th

Karla Perry - Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability

We cannot take on anger toward these professors. They are ensnared in a faulty worldview…Let us not blame the world for being the world…We can respond by pulling up stakes and retreating further into our sub-culture or we can be the harbingers of freedom to the captives. Our focus is to be on restoring rather than retreating.

Chris Cleave - Everyone Brave is Forgiven

Everything can be restored. If one won't believe that, how does one endure all this?

Sunday Adelaja -

The reformation of society and restoration of spirituality should be our goal as Christians

Lailah Gifty - Akita

Repentance brings restoration.

Lailah Gifty - Akita

Restoration brings refreshment.

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Rest and your energy will be restored.

Lailah Gifty Akita -

If you dance to rhythm of music in your heart, you will restore your soul, and revive your spirit.

Robin Wall Kimmerer - and the Teachings of Plants

Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.

Robin Wall Kimmerer - and the Teachings of Plants

What we contemplate here is more than ecological restoration; it is the restoration of relationship between plants and people. Scientists have made a dent in understanding how to put ecosystems back together, but our experiments focus on soil pH and hydrology—matter, to the exclusion of spirit. We might look to the Thanksgiving Address for guidance on weaving the two. We are dreaming of a time when the land might give thanks for the people.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Based on the English Standard Version

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.

Kristen McNulty - Closed Doors

And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.

Gary Rohrmayer -

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness.

Craig Groeschel - Weird: Because Normal Isn't Working

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

Robin Wall Kimmerer - and the Teachings of Plants

Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it—grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair.

Walt Disney Company - Saving Mr Banks the Official Multi Touch Book

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .

John Eldredge - Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

Grief is a form of validation it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered.

Marlene Van Niekerk - Agaat

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Andrew Peterson - The Monster in the Hollows

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable.

Marta Mrotek - Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.

Marilynn Dawson - Becoming the Bride of Christ: A Personal Journey Volume One

We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!

John Eldredge -

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

John Eldredge - Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

John Geddes - A Familiar Rain

...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...

Dr. J. Otis Yoder - He that Should Come

The Creator did not speak man into existence as He did all else which He made, but He began with previously made material. So in the restoration process He did not speak the restoration into reality by fiat. Rather He began the process through a series of connected acts and events. And certainly no act of the Eternal Creator would ever be without purpose or reason.

Alan Paton - Too Late the Phalarope

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.

Andrena Sawyer -

If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless.Thank God that's not the case.

John Calvin - 2 Vols

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.

Audrey Hepburn -

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I re

Sunday Adelaja -

To Be Part Of The Restoration Is A Decision

Jim George -

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.

Gina Greenlee - Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

Neil Gaiman - Anansi Boys

Songs remain. They last...A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs.

Kim Jong-un -

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature.

J.R. Rim -

We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be.

Sunday Adelaja -

For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary

Sunday Adelaja -

The greatest teaching is restoration of mankind to divine love of God

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Relax and be refreshed.

Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.

J.M. Coetzee - Slow Man

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.

Robin Wall Kimmerer - and the Teachings of Plants

If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms.

Shannon L. Alder -

You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about.

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove - God's Economy: Redefining the Health and Wealth Gospel

People who are starving and dressed in rags don’t want to hear someone read a list of propositional “good news.” They want to see the good news in action. The church doesn’t hold revival meetings and call it a day — we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, dig wells, and staff medical clinics. Social action isn’t an optional part of evangelism; it is evangelism. This is an important correction to the overspirituality that dominated evangelical Christianity just a generation ago. But the both/and of

Craig D. Lounsbrough -

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.

Karla Perry - Back to the Future: Rebuilding America's Stability

Remember, God placed man on earth and gave him dominion over the earth to cultivate and steward it. The fall of man subjected the earth to the same corruption as the hearts of man, but the work Jesus did on the cross set the course for the reversal of this process and the return to our intended mandate. Instead, we as Christians tend to sit back while those who do not know the Lord cultivate and dominate the earth. This is not wrong. They are in fact doing what they were created to do, but they

Deborah Day - BE HAPPY NOW!

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.

Sunday Adelaja -

The shining forth of God’s kingdom is a sign of restoration

Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!

Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!