Quotes about Reconstruction
When Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies heard that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left—though to that time I had not yet installed the doors in the gates—
- Nehemiah 6:1
Your builders hasten back; your destroyers and wreckers depart from you.
- Isaiah 49:17
No longer will violence be heard in your land, nor ruin or destruction within your borders. But you will name your walls Salvation and your gates Praise.
- Isaiah 60:18
See, I have appointed you today over nations and kingdoms to uproot and tear down, to destroy and overthrow, to build and plant.”
- Jeremiah 1:10
For this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:
- Jeremiah 33:4
Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
- Ezekiel 36:35
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Let your hands be strong, you who now hear these words spoken by the prophets who were present when the foundations were laid to rebuild the temple, the house of the LORD of Hosts.
- Zechariah 8:9
and declared, “This man said, ‘I am able to destroy the temple of God and rebuild it in three days.’”
- Matthew 26:61
“We heard Him say, ‘I will destroy this man-made temple, and in three days I will build another that is made without hands.’”
- Mark 14:58
‘After this I will return and rebuild the fallen tent of David. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it,
- Acts 15:16
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization.
- Albert Einstein
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
- Oscar Wilde