Restoration Quotes

• Whenever God restores something, He restores it to a place greater than it was before.

  Bill Johnson

  Greater

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• True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

  Paul David Tripp

  Skills, Grace, Subtlety

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

  Jim George

  Return, Turn To God, Available

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• America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

  Warren G. Harding

  Healing, America, Presidential

  Speech, Boston, Mass., 14 May 1920.

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• When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

  Charles Stanley

  Scar, Sin, Intimacy

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• Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• Where do we even start on the daily walk of restoration and awakening? We start where we are.

  Anne Lamott

  Awakening, Walks

  Anne Lamott (2013). “Help: The First Essential Prayer”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• 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.

  Camille Paglia

  Beauty, Art, Vandalism

  "The eyes of the beholder" by Camille Paglia, www.washingtonpost.com. March 10, 1991.

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• Afghanistan is very satisfied with Croatia's participation in the NATO-led peace mission and expects Croatia to expand its contribution to peace restoration in Afghanistan to other areas as well.

  Hamid Karzai

  Croatia, Missions, Afghanistan

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• The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

  Dan B. Allender

  Problem

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• The pattern of the prodigal is: rebellion, ruin, repentance, reconciliation, restoration.

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Uprising, Christian Inspirational, Literature

  Edwin Louis Cole (1998). “Absolute Answers to Prodigal Problems”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

  Adam Clarke

  Jesus, Men, Creating

  Adam Clarke (1831). “Discourses on various subjects relative to the being and attributes of God, and his works in creation, providence, and grace”, p.301

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• But resurrection is not just consolation — it is restoration. We get it all back — the love, the loved ones, the goods, the beauties of this life — but in new, unimaginable degrees of glory and joy and strength.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Joy

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.47, Penguin

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• The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.

  Shane Claiborne

  Community, Politician, Reconciliation

  Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.184, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Art, Ideas, Anxiety

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• You resemble what you revere, either for ruin or restoration.

  Gregory Beale

  Ruins

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• The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

  Bede Griffiths

  Spiritual, Humanity, Harmony

  Bede Griffiths (1990). “A New Vision of Reality: Western Science, Eastern Mysticism and Christian Faith”, Templegate Pub

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• I try to explain the difference to a client between cleaning and restoration.Cleaning is simply removing some light to moderate soils. Restoration is removing those hardened deposits and stains that require heavier cleaners and much more time. Or on a building that has just been built or renovated it's removing all the construction debris. Setting expectations can go a long way to having and keeping satisfied customers.

  Tony Evans

  Light, Differences, Long

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• We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Heart, Thinking

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• We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

  Max Lerner

  Faces, Cases, Core

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• Better the discomfort that leads to repentance and restoration than temporal comfort and eternal damnation.

  Francine Rivers

  Comfort, Damnation, Repentance

  Francine Rivers (1995). “As Sure as the Dawn”, p.140, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Worldviews have four elements that help us understand how a person's story fits together: creation, fall, redemption, and restoration. "Creation" tells us how things began, where everything came from (including us), the reason for our origins, and what ultimate reality is like. "Fall" describes the problem (since we all know something has gone wrong with the world). "Redemption" gives us the solution, the way to fix what went wrong. "Restoration" describes what the world would look like once the repair begins to take place.

  Greg Koukl

  Fall, Reality, Four Elements

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

  Saint Patrick

  Faith, Christian, Jesus

  Saint Patrick, Charles Henry Hamilton Wright (1885*). “The Writings of Patrick: The Apostle of Ireland. A Revised Translation with Notes Critical and Historical”

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• An old meaning of the word 'restoration' is to find someone with a royal bloodline who has been removed from the throne and then restore the person to that throne - to a position of honor.

  Danny Silk

  Honor, Thrones, Royal

  Danny Silk (2009). “Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Enviornment”, p.79, Destiny Image Publishers

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• We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

  Robert E. Lee

  Country, War, Generations

  Robert E. Lee (2016). “The Life and Letters of Robert E. Lee (Abridged)”, p.432, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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