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Quotes About Restoration

Quando rientrai in ufficio, l'immagine della donna che sale per le scale era diventata, a furia di riproiettarmela nella mente, una di quelle repliche di spettacoli in seconda serata di cui vorresti vedere una versione restaurata (p. 310)
~ Richard Powers
That as long as we keep God imprisoned in a retributive frame instead of a restorative frame, we really have no substantial good news;
~ Richard Rohr
instead of finishing up, he'd gone around to the south side and begun to scrape, an activity more in harmony with his mood. It felt far more satisfying to be peeling something away creating ugliness before restoring beauty.
~ Richard Russo
old textile mill, which was in the process of being
~ Richard Russo
The world may need fixing, but it's worth preserving.
~ Rick Riordan
Nothing is unfixable.
~ Rick Riordan
Relationships are always worth restoring.
~ Rick Warren
trying to restore some kind of natural balance of humors in the world.
~ Kate Atkinson
The war was a clumsily stitched
~ Kate Atkinson
Had she been broken and healed all awry, like a bone that had not been properly set?
~ Kate Forsyth
I learned how marvelously the mind can heal, given half a chance, and how patience and gentleness can put back together the pieces of a horribly shattered world. What God had put asunder, an elemental salt, a first-rank psychiatrist, and a man's kindness and love could put almost right again.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
The merrier the heart, alleged Burton, the longer the life. Modern science tends to support his contention: positive emotions such as joy act as breathers from stress and in doing so they help to restore physical and psychological health after draining or stressful times.
~ Kay Redfield Jamison
Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
A wound that healed slowly, but heal it did.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained
~ Wallace D. Wattles
Our very contract with nature has a deep restorative power; contemplation of its magnificence imparts peace and serenity.
~ Pope John Paul II
Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.
~ John Kador
We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.
~ Richard M. Weaver
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
~ Charles F. Stanley
We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.
~ Francis Asbury
The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.
~ Boyd K. Packer
When people wear you out, spend some time in isolation with Allah and your relationship with Him will improve as well as with the people.
~ Omar Suleiman
The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.
~ James MacDonald
During the second half of the nineteenth century', wrote Gilbert's younger brother Cecil, 'the middle class was absolutely bubbling over with ideas…. It was rioting in its new-found intellectual liberty as heartily as the men of the Restoration rioted in their new-found moral liberty. Everywhere you found households where new theories of politics, philosophy, religion, or science were eagerly welcomed, debated, and
~ William Oddie