Quotes About Restoration

Always remember, the person we're really working for is the person who's restoring the piece a hundred years from now. He's the one we want to impress.

but the first rule of restorations, as he'd taught me earlier on, was that you never did what you couldn't reverse.

In all their distress he too was distressed, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and mercy he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old. -Isaiah 63:9

For I will restore health to you and heal you of your wounds," says the Lord… -Jeremiah 30:17

Lord can restore a covenant with Israel and yet continue

For an Animal that Has Died or Is About to Die Loving God, our beloved pet and companion, (name), is on its final journey. We will miss (name) dearly because of the joy and affection (name) has given to us. Bless (name) and give him/her peace. May your care for (name) never die. We thank you for the gift that (name) has been to us. Give us hope that in your great kindness you may restore (name) in your heavenly kingdom according to your wisdom, which goes

Ma se è una tela sporcata, tagliata e rotta, bisogna prima ricostituirla. Questo ricostituire, questo lavorare per ricostituire, che sarebbe persino un perdere tempo, questo è la croce.

Our God is a God who not merely restores, but takes up our mistakes and follies into his plan for us and brings good out of them.

To destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.

We must not only protect the country side and save it from destruction, we must resort what has been destroyed and salvage the beauty and charm of our cities... Once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. And once man can no longer walk with beauty or wonder at nature, his spirit will wither and his sustenance be wasted.

My ability to heal cannot be conditional on them wanting my forgiveness but only on my willingness to give it.

Brokenness to redemption, where mercy and grace kiss both sides of our face. Brokenness where we are split open. Redemption where God knits us back together. Mercy when we don't get the punishment we do deserve. Grace when we get the lavish love gifts we don't deserve. So here we are.

When sin entered the world, it broke the goodness of God's design. And sin absolutely breaks God's heart. But in no way did sin affect the goodness of God. He has a plan, a good plan to rid this world of every effect of sin.

In the meantime, we must hold fast to the truth of who God is and His unchanging nature: God is good. His plans are good. His requirements are good. His salvation is good. His grace is good. His forgiveness is good. His restoration is good.

Though we may get our hearts broken from the effects of sin in this in-between time, God's goodness will eventually set the world right.

And we'd both agree this isn't how it should be. This life between two gardens is confusing and complicated. Dust is messy. We don't even like to touch dust, especially if it's made up of the shattered pieces of our own hearts.

I only needed to bring my willingness to forgive, not the fullness of all my restored feelings.

But Jesus doesn't refuse to reach out to us in the middle of hurts and heartbreaks and mess-ups.

If our souls never ached with disappointments and disillusionments, we'd never fully admit and submit to our need for God. If we weren't ever shattered we'd never know the glorious touch of the Potter making something glorious out of dust, out of us.

It's easier to construct a more palatable life story—where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced—than to face the raw truth. I prefer to neatly match each hard part of my testimony with the soft place I landed in the middle of God's grace, forgiveness, and restoration as proof I am walking in freedom.

Broken boards can't provide stability.

Confession breaks the cycle of chaos inside of me. Forgiveness breaks the cycle of chaos between us.

Brokenness is what must happen before God can put the pieces back together in the way He can shine through the best.

We don't think about fixing things until we realize they are broken.