Quotes About Restoration

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

Repentance restores your relationship with God.

Humility and repentance are necessary to restore your relationship with God.

the natural world seemed to absorb the poison in me.

Interestingly, one notable way of restoring soil is the planting of cannabis or hemp, which absorbs more CO2 than any other tree, shrub, or plant known to man. But growing cannabis remains illegal in the United States. Rattan

Some things can be both real and imaginary at the same time, . . . some lies can be true, . . . broken faith may be restored.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.

If you want to see God restore whats been stolen from you, get up each morning expecting good things to happen.

I wish I could make the land bloom for you. But the land is not mine to give. It belongs to the earth and to the spirits that dwell within it. We are merely stewards, entrusted with the care of this sacred land, and it is our duty to ensure that it thrives for generations to come. That is why we must tread lightly, with humility and respect, and work together to restore the balance that has been lost. (Kneubuhl 35)

Forgive the person who confesses his fault because it is already half redressed.

Mother is the reflective principle, the balancing agent for the child. Like a guru, she allows the child to make mistakes and loves the child without condition. Like nature, she allows consequences to unfold and balance to be restored when it is lost.

Upon the offender's repentance (v. 29; Luke 17:3), God requires us to forgive from the heart (v. 35).

Remember the height from which you have fallen!

Plead with the Lord for forgiveness and restoration. Beg him to revive your heart by his Spirit.

Rather than clinging close to the Lord, and resolve by the grace and power of God to do better than those who have fallen, and even to help restore them, they will use anything as an excuse to stop serving God and doing what he requires of them.

Confessing my sins is not enough. Forgiveness is not enough. I need to abandon sin. I need to restore to God what I have deprived Him of —a loving response to His love. God is calling us to respond to His love with our whole being, so that He can change our hearts and make them like His: Go, and sin no more. … Love as I have loved you. … Forgive as you have been forgiven. … Be merciful as your Heavenly Father is merciful. … Be holy, for I, your God, am holy.

Then Ardent, heavy hearted, turned away; sore for the rusted armor and the wasted days: but as Sir Constant saw his shield, and lo! the lost Emblem of the King was shining once more through its veil of dishonor. For the heart's tears of sorrow had fallen upon the shield, and where they had fallen they had burned away the shame and stain.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Godliness is not the consequence of your capacity to imitate God but the consequence of His capacity to reproduce Himself in you. It is not self-righteousness but Christ-righteousness, the righteousness that is by faith—a faith that by renewed dependence upon God releases His divine action to restore the marred image of the invisible God.

There is something in us, as storytellers and as listeners to stories, that demands the redemptive act, that demands that what falls at least be offered the chance to be restored.

God is a God of second chances

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.

I believe that if corporate America expects consumer confidence to be restored, they must first be honest with us.