Quotes About Restoration

he has discovered that the will of God is not to hate, not to torture, not to cast away from his presence, but to restore his creatures to goodness, that he may thereby restore them to usefulness.  David has discovered that God demands no sacrifice, much less self-torturing penance.  What he demands is the heart.  The sacrifice of God is a troubled spirit.  A broken and a contrite heart he will not despise. 

Once a heart breaks…it doesn't just grow back. It's not a lizard's tail. It's more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it's not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn't make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don't mend and they don't heal. They just don't work that way.

Sin may have the power to kill and destroy, but God is the Creator of life. He can create it from nothing, and He can restore it from death.(John 11:25-26)

Grace releases people not only from sin but from shame.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

Don't quit. Don't give up. God can take the broken pieces and make them beautiful again. It's what he does best.

The reason he kept going was that God got hold of his heart. And he did the same for me. I'm so ashamed of what happened back there. How we let our passions run. We hurt a lot of people. And we've lived with that. But

Ancient monuments 300 to 1000-plus years old are never 'renovated,' only 'restored,' a distinction that escapes the babus.

Healing is a moral thing to do.

Everyone is broken; every mortal man or woman is broken in some way, shape, or form.

There are no wastelands in our landscape quite like those we've created ourselves.

When the Air Force nearly collapsed in the 1970s, he was one of the men who saved it, and rebuilt it in the 1980s, not just fixing the broken parts, but defining what an air force is supposed to be.

For me, Art is the restoration of order. It may discuss all sort of terrible things, but there must be satisfaction at the end. A little bit of hunger, but also satisfaction.

The deceased was the tragic hero, the survivors the innocent victims; there was the omnipresence of the deity, strophe and antistrophe of the chorus of mourners led by the preacher. There was grief over the waste of life, the stunned wonder at the ways of God, and the restoration of order in nature at the graveyard.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

A person looking into a carnival mirror couldn't accurately describe the true person who is being reflected in the mirror. Neither can you accurately say what truth is when you look through the distorted mirror of your soul. The soul within you—how you see a matter—needs to be restored. You do this by exchanging your thoughts for God's truth.

When God secures your victory in His name, have confidence that His name also has the power to give you back what "the swarming locust has eaten" (Joel 2:25). God's name covers all: past, present, and future. But it especially covers the giants that taunt you in your life. Trust Jehovah Tsaba. He's got you covered.

The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the very practical business of urban life and the maintenance of cleanliness and civility on city streets. If we don't trust each other, our towns will look horrible and be nasty places to live. Moreover, she observed, you cannot institutionalize trust. Once corroded, it is virtually impossible to restore.

Broken eggs make good omelettes. But you cannot build a better society on broken men.

it is God's Will that all be healed, cause Jesus already paid for it.

He stood there at the edge of the orchard looking like he would never be whole again.

She restored herself with a cocktail and an excellent lobster mayonnaise. Phryne was devoted to lobster mayonnaise, with cucumbers.

Podemos ver cómo una taza cae de la mesa y se rompe en pedazos, pero nunca podremos ver cómo una taza se recompone y vuelve a saltar a la mesa. Este aumento del desorden o entropía diferencia el pasado del futuro y de este modo otorga al tiempo una dirección. Stephen Hawking

There is no wine in the world as heady as applause; and it has the same effect. It temporarily subdues anxiety and restores confidence.