Quotes about Return

Dust we are, and to dust we shall return. But God can do new things with dust.

The destruction of the Temple by the Babylonians in 587 BC had been the worst possible disaster, indicating that Israel's God had abandoned his house, had left the Temple and city to their long-deserved fate. That was the verdict of Ezekiel, and it is echoed by other writers of the period. But that could not be the end of the story. God had promised to come back. He had promised one final great Passover. One day, when he returned, his people would be free forever.

There are many ways to go wrong, but only one path leads back to God. There

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return. And they were relieved when they got back, with a sense of having fulfilled an obligation.

To someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return.

They weren't real travelers: they left in order to return.

The opposite of the weightlessness that leads to a nation's collapse is revival, a return to the glory and therefore the reality and weightiness of God.

In terms of distance, the prodigal's pigsty is the farthest point from home; in terms of time, the pigsty is the shortest distance to the father's house.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Thou art dust and unto dust thou shalt return.

If I am really a part of your dream, you'll come back one day.

But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.