Quotes About Restoration

Commander Judd is a great believer in the restorative powers of young women, as were King David and assorted Central American drug lords

Too much of the world was inhospitable, intractable... Why prove that it had ever once been green?

You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied, obliterated from the mind, all the poison drawn from old wounds….

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

Time doesn't heal anything... only God can heal

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

To repair the irreparable ravages of time.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue

She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.

Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We're a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

The ancient Chinese had a practice of embellishing the cracked parts of valued possessions with gold leaf, which says: We dishonor it if we pretend that it hadn't gotten broken. It says: We value this enough to repair it. So it is not denial or a cover-up. It is the opposite, an adornment of the break with gold leaf, which draws the cracks into greater prominence. The gold leaf becomes part of its beauty.

He had the time to hear, like a person who believed there was someone alive beneath the rubble of herself, who heard the soft sounds she could still make from the broken parts that had waited decades to be missed.

But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are. We find God in our human lives, and that includes the suffering. I get thirsty people glasses of water, even if that thirsty person is just me.

But where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

The search is the meaning, the search for beauty, love, kindness and restoration in this difficult, wired and often alien modern world. The miracle is that we are here, that no matter how undone we've been the night before, we wake up every morning and are still here. It is phenomenal just to be.

It is the spirit which heals the transgressor, and that is in essence what matters.

We spend too much time cursing time—time waits for no man, time will tell, oh, the ravages of time, time flies! We don't think about the gift of time. Time gives us the chance to make mistakes and correct them, to regenerate, to grow. Time gives us the chance to forgive, to restore, to do better than we have ever done in the past. Time gives us the chance to be sorry when we fail and the chance to try to discover in ourselves a new heart.

When the world of man collapses in ruin, beauty will take over. The trees shall grow again where there were streets; the flowers will again cover the meadow that is now a dank field of hovels. That shall be the purpose of the Satanic master, to see the wild grass and the dense forest cover up all trace of the once great cities until nothing remains.

Love me. You have destroyed everything! But if you love me, it can all be restored in a new form. Love me.

must somehow move to my restoration. I could not sink back in agony for that would breed but more agony. I must go on.

I become dim and shriveled, somehow, at my very core if I am away from the sea too long.