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Quotes About Restoration

Not every lost soul is a lost cause
~ Unknown
Clever plastic surgery can restore an appearance of youth, but nothing changes the expression of age and experience in the eyes.
~ M.C. Beaton
WITH COMMUNISM NO LONGER VIABLE, THE DEFAULT RALLYING CRY for an autocratic Russian leader is nationalism. Putin, with his staged military parades and frequent invocation of past heroics, sounds that trumpet repeatedly. He wants citizens to believe that only he can restore his country to its rightful position in world affairs. If that means playing a little rough, so be it
~ Madeleine K. Albright
When there is rot in the walls, there is only one remedy." The purple bruise at my throat was turning green at its edges. I pressed it, felt the splintered ache. Tear down, I thought. Tear down and build again.
~ Madeline Miller
and we would take pleasure in the simple mending of the world.
~ Madeline Miller
The idea is not that Israel returns to Yahweh and therefore Yahweh forgives it and restores it; it is rather that Yahweh forgives it and restores it, and this action must draw Israel to return to Yahweh (Is 44:21-22).
~ John E. Goldingay
The purpose of his life, death, and resurrection was to ransom you from your sin, deliver you from the clutches of evil, restore you to God - so that his personality and his life could heal and fill your personality. Your humanity, and your life. This is the reason he came. Anything else is religion.
~ John Eldredge
Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.
~ John Eldredge
Perhaps it is our fear of getting our hopes up; it seems too good to be true. Perhaps it's been the almost total focus on sin and the Cross. But the Scripture is abundant and clear: Christ came not only to pardon us, but also to heal us. He wants the glory restored. So, put the book down for just a moment, and let this sink in: Jesus can, and wants to, heal your heart.
~ John Eldredge
So you can't demand the broken to live as if they were whole. Discipline is not the issue; apply discipline and you'll make it worse. What is needed is healing.
~ John Eldredge
Jesus, I give my hope to your true and certain return, and the renewal of all things.
~ John Eldredge
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~ John Eldredge
Genuine holiness restores human beings; restored human beings possess genuine holiness.
~ John Eldredge
And so, dear heart, it is time for your restoration. For there is One greater than your Enemy. One who has sought you out from the beginning of time. He has come to heal your broken heart and restore your feminine soul. Let us turn now to him.
~ John Eldredge
Lest we despair, God has given us a future and a hope (Jeremiah 29:11 NLT) and to be specific, it includes the restoration of every precious day of our lives. Heaven is not a memory wipe. it is the time and capacity to truly relish the story of our lives, to see the hand of God in it all (how many times angels rescued you), to be vindicated, and even rewarded.
~ John Eldredge
Nothing is truly lost. This is going to come back to me; this will be in one of my treasure chests Jesus will restore to me.
~ John Eldredge
Imagine—after your enemies are judged and banished, many great treasure chests are set before you. Jesus tells you to open them, saying, These are the gifts I meant for you in your former life but were stolen. I return them now, with interest. Imagine what fills those chests. Laughter comes from one, for so much of what has been lost are memories and joy.
~ John Eldredge
restored in you, to be renewed in you, to receive from you
~ John Eldredge
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds," declares the LORD, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares." (Jer. 30:16–17)
~ John Eldredge
Nu poti sa urasti pe cineva deja infrant.Care, fara tine, nu va mai fi niciodata om intreg.
~ John Fowles
Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste/Brought death into the world, and all our woe,/With loss of Eden, till one greater Man/Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,/Sing heavenly muse
~ John Milton
The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.
~ John Milton
Releasing the emotional energy and focusing on acceptance dissipates anger and restores balance.
~ Jude Bijou
In places where this beauty has already disappeared, we will reconstruct it.
~ Fritz Todt