Quotes about Restoration
Salvation history reveals sin as literally a broken home.
— Scott Hahn
The Cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go to in order to restore broken community.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation.
— Germany Kent
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
— George Eliot
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
— Epictetus
Salvation is the entire universe being brought back into harmony with its maker.
— Rob Bell
Confession designed to restore lost blessings is a management technique, it is not repentance.
— Larry Crabb
Just as the Shechinah is in exile, so is the Torah in exile.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
We must constantly remember: we spoil and God restores. How ugly is the way in which we spoil, and how good and how beautiful is the way in which He restores.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
An image needs a living object, and a copy can only be formed from a model. Either man models himself on the god of his own invention, or the true and living God moulds the human form in his image. There must be a complete transformation, a 'metamorphosis' (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18), if man is to be restored to the image of God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Micah 7:19 ... "You will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea." The picture is of God vigorously disposing of our sins by hurling them overboard. He doesn't just drop them over the side; He hurls them...
— Jerry Bridges
George Smeaton wrote, "[The apostle Paul] exhibits the two great counterparts of sin and righteousness as equal realities — the one as the world's ruin, the other as its restoration. The one is a completed fact as well as the
— Jerry Bridges