Quotes About Restoration

So we forgive. We send away the wrongs done to us. We let people out of the little cages we keep them in while we enjoy our feelings of moral superiority. We hand the feelings of wrong to God and refuse to ever take them back. Then we shut up and never mention the matter again. When the time comes, we put our arm around the offender and we ask him how he is.

I suggest you pray Psalm 23:3 every day. Lord, please be my good shepherd and restore my soul.

Psalm 23:3 every day. Lord, please be my good shepherd and restore my soul.

Mending is harder than breaking

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. ~Thomas Covenant

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

At last, my arm is complete again

The goal of the judicial system should be to rehabilitate wrongdoers rather than harming them

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

Anything we love can be saved.

God's love looks for those who feel unlovely, desiring to make them beautiful again.

Frontline love. It is our one hope for breaking down barriers and for restoring the sense of community, of caring for one another, that our decadent, impersonalized culture has sucked out of us.

Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.

Before Set's defeat and banishment from the kingdom, he tears out one of his nephew's eyes. But the eventually victorious Horus takes back the eye. Then he does something truly unexpected: he journeys voluntarily to the underworld and gives the eye to his father. What does this mean? First, that the encounter with malevolence and evil is of sufficient terror to damage even the vision of a god; second, that the attentive son can restore the vision of his father.

The rot must be revealed before something sound can be put in its place,

that the attentive son can restore the vision of his father.

The restoration of man's inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one's realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry.

The greatest reformation should be among those who have been the greatest sinners.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

Every cell, nerve, tissue, and muscle of my lungs are now being made whole, pure, and perfect. My whole body is being restored to health and harmony.

Tertullian speaks the mind of the Latin Fa thers when he says: "The guilt being removed, the penalty is removed also. Thus man is re stored to God according to the likeness of him [i. e. Adam] who in days gone by had been [created] to the image of God.