Quotes About Restoration

No matter how many wrong turns we've taken and no matter how many detours we've been down, it's God's grace that gets us back onto the parade route.

Confession breaks the power of canceled sin. It also heals the broken heart.

When you confess your sin, it no longer defines you.

Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.

Author wonders whether God's proclamation of His natural mastery when appearing to Job might be about restoring a sense of wonder to world-weary man as much as humbling him.

You can't fix something until you admit it's broken.

Restitution: Find some way to make amends, at least partially.

The appropriate response to precarious people's lives is not more prisons, but the forming of just policies for all and creative socialism in the practice of building new institutions for care and restoration. Attaining those, however, will require building people's movements that take down Lockdown America and free up new imagination and practice for dramatic and feasible socialist futures.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Brokenness is a fact of life for us all, and I'm not just talking about physical breaking. Many of us have also had more than a taste of emotional brokenness too.

just as we all know what it means to witness something being broken, we also know what it means to hope for restoration.

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

My goal in coming to General Motors was to help restore profitability, build a strong market position and position this iconic company for success. We are clearly on that path.

A community is not likely to be overthrown where woman fulfills her mission, for by the power of her noble heart, she will raise it from its ruins, and restore it again to prosperity and joy.

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

In addition, when these men were confronted, they did not stubbornly persist in their sins but repented. Paul commands that we should accept, instruct, and restore such people (Galatians 6:1). So those who sin and fall because of weakness will not be refused forgiveness if they stand up again and do not persist in their sin. Persisting in sin is disastrous.

This is the work and skill of God, to correct and emend what had been ruined by Jacob's error. He can make evil matters good when we have spoiled and harmed matters.

Therefore when we are afflicted and disciplined, our heart must be aroused against the feeling of evil, and we must say (cf. Ps. 118:17): "I shall not die, but I shall live, however different it may appear. Although I may, indeed, be compelled to despair of myself, I shall nevertheless hope in Him who made all things out of nothing and can restore me intact after being reduced to nothing, to my very great benefit and that of others.

He healeth those that are broken in heart: and giveth medicine to heal their sickness. 147:1 Prayer Book , 1662

Deficiency of matter is not from the infinity of the father, who came to give time to deficiency. In fact, it is not right to say that the incorruptible would actually come in this manner. The father's depth is profound, and the thought of error is not with him. It is something that has fallen, and something that can readily be set upright through the discovery of the one who has come to what he would restore.

Our sister Sophia is the one who descended in an innocent manner to restore what she lacked. For this reason she was called life100—that is, the mother of the living—by the forethought of the sovereignty of heaven and by [the insight that appeared] to Adam.101 Through her have the living tasted perfect knowledge.102

Never cease loving a person, and never give up hope for him, for even the prodigal son who had fallen most low, could still be saved; the bitterest enemy and also he who was your friend could again be your friend; love that has grown cold can kindle

We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.

Mary E. DeMuth