Quotes About Restoration

After all, if I could fix an old coat, then surely, I could find a way to sew myself back together.

Grief is dishonest and irrational. It makes us believe we would do anything to restore the natural order as we perceive it, even though it is the very same order that extinguishes the ones we love. And should our wish be fulfilled and the dead return, we'd be left to answer

I need to see the world put back on its axis, things put right, even if I don't belong in it anymore.

My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.

When suffering shatters the carefully kept vase that is our lives, God stoops to pick up the pieces. But he doesn't put them back together as a restoration project patterned after our former selves. Instead, he sifts through the rubble and selects some of the shards as raw material for another project-a mosaic that tells the story of redemption.

Lamar related the Texas & Pacific bill to the national political crisis by presenting it as a means of "reconciliation" between the sections, "material reconstruction" of the South, and a way of restoring "mutual respect and affection" at a moment when those sentiments were desperately needed.

The general function of dreams is to try to restore our psychological balance by producing dream material that re-establishes, in a subtle way, the total psychic equilibrium.

Vote for me, Adolf Hitler, and I'll restore Germany to its rightful glory.

This study, it turns out, is one of many that validate attention restoration theory (ART), which claims that spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate.

attention restoration theory (ART), which claims that spending time in nature can improve your ability to concentrate.

The best we can do is knot these threads at the ends so they won't unravel any further.

The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

Even had Garfield simply been left alone, he almost certainly would have survived. Lodged as it was in the fatty tissue below and behind his pancreas, the bullet itself was no continuing danger to the president. Nature did all she could to restore him to health, a surgeon would write just a few years later. She caused a capsule of thick, strong, fibrous tissue to be formed around the bullet, completely walling it off from the rest of the body, and rendering it entirely harmless.

We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again

Somos como el huevo Humpty Dumpty del acertijo infantil, y ni todos los caballos y hombres del rey juntos podrán recomponernos.

Remember that there's a time to hate and a time to heal.

Redemption reconstructs the relation of man to God.

Flesh heals. The soul can fester.

And, to be certain, God did not merely descend into creation to wallow in dust. He came to redeem a sin-shackled creation and bring eternal life in the midst of death. God put on human flesh in order to restore human flesh. He descended into the depths of a fallen world in order to lift it up out of the muck and mire of sin.

God did not have—but wanted very much to have—men and women who would live in pain. God wanted a broken vessel.

There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Fatigue fled.

A wish for a future no longer tainted by the past. A future that held joy, not regret. A future that offered love instead of loneliness.

Al parecer, cree más en la curación que en el castigo de los criminales. Considero esto muy significativo.