Restoration Quotes

“You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.”
― John Eldredge, Love and War: Finding the Marriage You've Dreamed Of

“God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences.”
― Alan Paton, Too Late the Phalarope

“Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!”
― Marilynn Dawson, Becoming the Bride of Christ: A Personal Journey Volume One

“Meneer, said the captain, if man takes unto himself God's right to punish, then he must also take upon himself God's promise to restore.”
― Alan Paton, Too Late the Phalarope

“There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate.”
― John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 Vols

“...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?...”
― John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

“You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Slow Man

“All the beauty that's been lost before wants to find us again”
― U2

“And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores.”
― Kristen McNulty, Closed Doors

“I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who empowers, enriches, equips, enlightens, energizes, recreates, revives, promotes, strengthens, purifies, sponsors, and prepares me! Yes, I can... ALL THINGS, I can!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Dim as the borrowed beams of moons and stars
To lonely, weary, wandering travelers,
Is Reason to the soul; and, as on high
Those rolling fires discover but the sky,
Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray
Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way,
But guide us upward to a better day.”
― John Dryden, Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith

“We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again ... .”
― Disney Publishing Worldwide, Saving Mr Banks the Official Multi Touch Book

“There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.”
― Marta Mrotek, Miracle In Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery

“People who are starving and dressed in rags don’t want to hear someone read a list of propositional “good news.” They want to see the good news in action. The church doesn’t hold revival meetings and call it a day — we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, dig wells, and staff medical clinics. Social action isn’t an optional part of evangelism; it is evangelism. This is an important correction to the overspirituality that dominated evangelical Christianity just a generation ago. But the both/and of holistic mission still misses the heart of Jesus if we don’t see that the church needs the poor as much as the poor need the church. Jesus didn’t embrace the poor only because he pitied them or because he knew he had the resources to help them. Jesus embraced the poor because they were rushing into the kingdom ahead of the scribes and Pharisees — those who called themselves God’s people. Jesus welcomed people who knew poverty because they were ready to receive what he had to offer. Religious people, he said, could learn something from them. Our spiritual lives are linked to the material conditions of our life. When we feel like we don’t need much materially, we often have trouble remembering why we need God. We comfortable Americans can go through an entire day without thinking of God. But Jesus gave the poor more than food to eat and relief from their sickness. He restored them to God’s beloved community.”
― Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, God's Economy: Redefining the Health and Wealth Gospel

“Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God.”
― Jim George

“God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said "No!, I am not going to lose what I want done!, So I'm gonna save this people and restore their dreams back to them"!”
― Israelmore Ayivor

“Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, Morning and Evening, Based on the English Standard Version

“Once land gets in a state, once it begins to deteriorate, it is hard to reverse the process. Land falls sick just like people—that's the whole tragedy of our time.”
― Brian W. Aldiss, Earthworks

“Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel!”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!