Quotes about Restoration

If we offer what we've experienced to Him, in all its horror and ugliness, and receive His offer to redeem all that occurred, He will bring fruit from it. This has been the single most healing aspect of my recovery from childhood victimization. This is my prayer for that precious little girl. And my prayer for you, too, if you've experienced something similar.

How like Jesus to start stitching a heart back together even as the knife was tearing it apart.

For the Lord has called you, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit. Isaiah 54:6

I will certainly bring health and healing to it and will indeed heal them. Jeremiah 33:6

Like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be recovered, so we must die. But God does not take away life; instead, he devises ways so that a banished person may not remain estranged from him. (2 Sam. 14:14)

He has torn us, and He will heal us; He has wounded us, and He will bind up our wounds. Hosea 6:1

If the Bible is about anything at all, it is about God having mercy on the pitiful plight of men, forgiving their sins and restoring their lives.

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John 1:9

Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Psalm 74:3

The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He saves those crushed in spirit. Psalm 34:18

Time by itself does nothing but grow us old. It's what we do with time that makes all the difference. We often say, "Time heals," yet I've known just as many that time embittered. Only God heals. Only God restores. Only God effectively prepares, teaches, equips, and matures. But you can count on Him to use the test tube of time in which to accomplish it.

I will rebuild and not demolish you, and I will plant and not uproot you. Jeremiah 42:10