Quotes about Repair

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

The goal of all learning is to repair the ruin of our first parents.

I draw my idea of the form of government from a principle in nature, which no art can overturn, viz. that the more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered;

The more simple any thing is, the less liable it is to be disordered, and the easier repaired when disordered . . . Absolute governments, (tho' the disgrace of human nature) have this advantage with them, they are simple; if the people suffer, they know the head from which their suffering springs; know likewise the remedy; and are not bewildered by a variety of causes and cures.

Suffering comes to ennoble man, to purge his thoughts of pride and superficiality, to expand his horizons. In sum, the purpose of suffering is to repair that which is faulty in a man's personality.

Holes in socks are sorta like sin, Josh. If you don't tend to them right away when they're small and controllable, they grow with amazing speed.

We are not machines that can be repaired through a series of steps—we are relational beings who are transformed by the mystery of relationship.

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Nothing will undo the accident; nothing will immediately repair the jar, so what is the urgency of the beating? To teach a lesson or to enjoy it?

The hole and the patch should be commensurate.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

Sometimes broken things deserve to be repaired.