92 Quotes About Restoration

The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable. Atrocities, however, refuse to be buried. Equally as powerful as the desire to deny atrocities is the conviction that denial does not work. Folk wisdom is filled with ghosts who refuse to rest in their graves until their stories are told. Murder will out. Remembering and telling the truth about terrible events are prerequisites both for the restoration of the social order and for the healing of individual victims. The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma. People who have survived atrocities often tell their stories in a highly emotional, contradictory, and fragmented manner that undermines their credibility and thereby serves the twin imperatives of truth-telling and secrecy. When the truth is finally recognized, survivors can begin their recovery. But far too often secrecy prevails, and the story of the traumatic event surfaces not as a verbal narrative but as a symptom. The psychological distress symptoms of traumatized people simultaneously call attention to the existence of an unspeakable secret and deflect attention from it. This is most apparent in the way traumatized people alternate between feeling numb and reliving the event. The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness, which George Orwell, one of the committed truth-tellers of our century, called "doublethink, " and which mental health professionals, searching for calm, precise language, call "dissociation." It results in protean, dramatic, and often bizarre symptoms of hysteria which Freud recognized a century ago as disguised communications about sexual abuse in childhood.. Judith Lewis Herman

Your dignity can be mocked, abused, compromised, toyed with, lowered and even badmouthed, but it can never be taken from you. You have the power today to reset your boundaries, restore your image, start fresh with renewed values and rebuild what has happened to you in the past. Shannon L. Alder

Romance is about putting things aright after some tragedy has put them asunder. It is about restoration of the right relations among things — and going home is where that restoration occurs because that is where it matters most. A. Bartlett Giamatti

This in essence is my goal. To set an example by doing what is good. If I live openly and honestly, I set an example of virtue, humanness, restoration, and healing. I give others permission to join me on my journey despite the fear of failure or the rejection it might elicit when they know they are not alone in their experience. The more of us who amass the courage to embark openly on this path, the more normal this experience becomes, effectively eliminating the tactic of shame and isolation that the enemy so often uses to cause us to falter. Riisa Renee

We cannot take on anger toward these professors. They are ensnared in a faulty worldview… Let us not blame the world for being the world… We can respond by pulling up stakes and retreating further into our sub-culture or we can be the harbingers of freedom to the captives. Our focus is to be on restoring rather than retreating. Karla Perry

To be able to open the heart again after betrayal, injury, or loss is a precious act. It requires both courage and compassion. It requires a new movement to emerge from the depths of grief. Forgiveness is one of the most certain paths to restoration, and it is also one of the most difficult. However, it is an attempt to return to wholeness, once again, by letting go and freeing myself from the tight clutch and heavy burden of caution, anger, resentment, and the desire for revenge and punishment. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself. Sharon Weil

Healing is essential for lasting change..healing is a transformation, not just a quick fix; a change from an inhibited or impaired state to one of greater health, integration and connection. What was damaged must be soothed, repaired, restored, and given new pathways in which to grow and flourish. In order for change to be thorough, old patterns need to be dissolved, and new, more coherent and refined constructs, formed. In creating coherency in new forms, what has become fragmented or separated, injured or diseased must be made whole again, or perhaps made whole for the first time. . Sharon Weil

We are not as some people like to assume nowadays 'just being real' by embracing passively the sinful, fallen versions of ourselves. Quite the opposite really: our true selves were, from the beginning, intended to resemble the example which was then set by Christ Jesus; hence God wants to restore us to how we would have been had original sin never once befell. Criss Jami

A storm-filled life replete with piercing and unearthly sounds ravages the soul of any thoughtful person. In contrast, the genteel wind of restoration moves silently, invisibly. Renewal is a spiritual process, the communal melody that sustains us. Inexpressible braids of tenderness whispering reciprocating chords of love for family, friends, humankind, and nature plaits interweaved layers of blissful atmosphere, which copious heart song brings spiritual rejuvenation. For when we love in a charitable and bountiful manner without reservation, liberated from petty jealously, and free of the toxic blot of discrimination, we become the ineluctable wind that vivifies the lives of other people. The mellifluous changes in heaven, earth, and our journey through the travails of time, while worshiping the trove of fathomless joys of life, constitute the seeds of universal poetry. Kilroy J. Oldster

A country can be reformed only through a spiritual restoration Sunday Adelaja

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men. Criss Jami

Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes. Bill Willingham

Reconnect with nature and be restored. Lailah Gifty Akita

When we reconnect with nature, we will be restore ourselves. Lailah Gifty Akita

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house. Criss Jami

Repentance brings restoration. Lailah Gifty

Rest and your energy will be restored. Lailah Gifty Akita

If you dance to rhythm of music in your heart, you will restore your soul, and revive your spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita

Spring time is a time for revival of every living thing. Lailah Gifty Akita

Restoration brings refreshment. Lailah Gifty

Relax and rejuvenate your sacred-spirit. Lailah Gifty Akita

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy. Criss Jami

O Lord my God, revive my soul! Lailah Gifty Akita

In times of solitude, I have find rest for my soul and uphold the glory of inner peace. Lailah Gifty Akita

Christians, as messengers of God should bring restoration to this earth, become the people who can reform society and the country Sunday Adelaja

I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who empowers, enriches, equips, enlightens, energizes, recreates, revives, promotes, strengthens, purifies, sponsors, and prepares me! Yes, I can... ALL THINGS, I can! Israelmore Ayivor

God wanted us to do something, and we went the bad way. Then he said "No! , I am not going to lose what I want done! , So I'm gonna save this people and restore their dreams back to them"! Israelmore Ayivor

If you lead me astray, then my wanderings will bring me to my destination. Michael Bassey Johnson

Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us. Robin Wall Kimmerer

What we contemplate here is more than ecological restoration; it is the restoration of relationship between plants and people. Scientists have made a dent in understanding how to put ecosystems back together, but our experiments focus on soil p H and hydrology–matter, to the exclusion of spirit. We might look to the Thanksgiving Address for guidance on weaving the two. We are dreaming of a time when the land might give thanks for the people. . Robin Wall Kimmerer

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day. Lailah Gifty Akita

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration. Craig Groeschel

Forgiveness and restoration are two difference acts. Forgiveness can lead to restoration but restoration is not hinged to forgiveness. Gary Rohrmayer

Never go hungry while the daily bread of grace is on the table of mercy. Charles Haddon Spurgeon

And we will mess up. We will hold on when we should have let go. We will walk away when we should have run. We will go when we should have stayed and we will hurt others when we should have loved. But God forgives, He forgets, and best of all, He restores. Kristen McNulty

Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it–grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Robin Wall Kimmerer

We restore order through the imagination. We restore hope over and over and over again .... Walt Disney Company

You're going to come across some truly gifted people in your lifetime that seem to know all the answers. However, they lost their personal relationship with God, along the way. Love them anyways, and do everything you can to help them restore that relationship. They are fighting a war that you don't know anything about. Shannon L. Alder

God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! Israelmore Ayivor

Remember, God placed man on earth and gave him dominion over the earth to cultivate and steward it. The fall of man subjected the earth to the same corruption as the hearts of man, but the work Jesus did on the cross set the course for the reversal of this process and the return to our intended mandate. Instead, we as Christians tend to sit back while those who do not know the Lord cultivate and dominate the earth. This is not wrong. They are in fact doing what they were created to do, but they are doing it under a different master. Consider what the world would look like if we took up our God-given mandate and released, by restoration, the glory of creation to a watching world! . Karla Perry

People who are starving and dressed in rags don’t want to hear someone read a list of propositional “good news.” They want to see the good news in action. The church doesn’t hold revival meetings and call it a day – we feed the hungry, clothe the naked, dig wells, and staff medical clinics. Social action isn’t an optional part of evangelism; it is evangelism. This is an important correction to the overspirituality that dominated evangelical Christianity just a generation ago. But the both/and of holistic mission still misses the heart of Jesus if we don’t see that the church needs the poor as much as the poor need the church. Jesus didn’t embrace the poor only because he pitied them or because he knew he had the resources to help them. Jesus embraced the poor because they were rushing into the kingdom ahead of the scribes and Pharisees – those who called themselves God’s people. Jesus welcomed people who knew poverty because they were ready to receive what he had to offer. Religious people, he said, could learn something from them. Our spiritual lives are linked to the material conditions of our life. When we feel like we don’t need much materially, we often have trouble remembering why we need God. We comfortable Americans can go through an entire day without thinking of God. But Jesus gave the poor more than food to eat and relief from their sickness. He restored them to God’s beloved community. Jonathan WilsonHartgrove

Jesus was and is the greatest restoration specialist of all time. Craig D. Lounsbrough

Perhaps a seemingly dull, boring person is not a person who lacks personality, but rather a person with so much personality most other things bore them. Criss Jami

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life. Deborah Day

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way. Andrew Peterson

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable. Craig D. Lounsbrough

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us. John Eldredge

At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart. Kemi Sogunle

We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours. Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things. Marta Mrotek

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole. John Eldredge

We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good! Marilynn Dawson

A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), .. .. Soke Behzad Ahmadi

...you were there when they trampled me - you picked me up, healed me and gave me back my feelings - is it any wonder I love you?... John Geddes

In each generation, there is this certain wisdom of the ages that gets reburied in the fleeting drivels of modernity; then, like a diamond in the rough, it is yet again unearthed by a very small minority who not only restores it, but also polishes it and presents it as something new, something highly valuable and refreshing as understood by the current. Criss Jami

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance. Marlene Van Niekerk

If mistakes determine our worth, then we're all worthless. Thank God that's not the case. Andrena Sawyer

But to punish and not to restore, that is the greatest of all offences. Alan Paton

There is no inconsistency when God raises up those who have fallen prostrate. John Calvin

The Creator did not speak man into existence as He did all else which He made, but He began with previously made material. So in the restoration process He did not speak the restoration into reality by fiat. Rather He began the process through a series of connected acts and events. And certainly no act of the Eternal Creator would ever be without purpose or reason. Unknown

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I re Audrey Hepburn

We breathe our deepest during sleep. When we are in the state of full rest. We are able to be. J.R. Rim

The greatest teaching is restoration of mankind to divine love of God Sunday Adelaja

For Restoration Of Mankind To Be Fulfilled, A Terrible Sacrifice Was Necessary Sunday Adelaja

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. Shannon L. Alder

Restoration is a skilled profession. You might even call it an art in its own right, except that it is frowned on to be original. First rule of restoration: follow the intention of the artist. Never try to improve on him. J.M. Coetzee

If time could run backward, like a film in reverse, we would see this mess reassemble itself into lush green hills and moss-covered ledges of limestone. The streams would run back up the hills to the springs and the salt would stay glittering in underground rooms. Robin Wall Kimmerer

Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration. Kazuo Ishiguro

Relax and be refreshed. Lailah Gifty Akita

A nation can be mighty, when the citizens put away their political differences, work together for a common vision, a common goal and a common good. Lailah Gifty Akita

The shining forth of God’s kingdom is a sign of restoration Sunday Adelaja

Rest, Recreated, Refreshed and Refuel! Lailah Gifty Akita

To Be Part Of The Restoration Is A Decision Sunday Adelaja

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God. Jim George

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see. Gina Greenlee

Songs remain. They last... A song can last long after the events and the people in it are dust and dreams and gone. That's the power of songs. Neil Gaiman

The forest restoration campaign is a war to ameliorate nature. Kim Jongun