Quotes about Restoration

For this is the Great Deed that our Lord shall do, in which Deed He shall save His word and He shall make all well that is not well. How it shall be done there is no creature beneath Christ that knoweth it, nor shall know it till it is done;

For He that made man for the sake of love, would by the same love restore man to bliss, even greater than before.

Love is the way back into Eden. It is the way back to life.

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

Michael had once read to her how God had cast a man and woman out of paradise. Yet, for all their human faults and failures. God had shown them the way back in.

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

To be alive is to be broken; to be broken is to stand in need of grace.

Through no merit of ours, but by His mercy, we have been restored to a right relationship with God through the life, death, and resurrection of His beloved Son. This is the Good News, the gospel of grace.

The story of the prodigal son is the story of a God who goes searching for me and who doesn't rest until he has found me.

Receiving forgiveness requires a total willingness to let God be God and do all the healing, restoring, and renewing.

The great spiritual call of the Beloved Children of God is to pull their brokenness away from the shadow of the curse and put it under the light of the blessing.

If then, we would indeed restore mankind by truly botanic, magnetic, or natural means, let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become of the worthies of the world.