Restored Quotes

“Life can be generous, but leaves us with a trilemma: How can we reconcile three diverse features: ‘I’, 'me' and the 'others'. Since the “I” entails what I want; the “me” what others expect of me and the “others” what others themselves want. The bridges between "individuality", “surroundings” and "otherness" can be abysmal and very often waiting to be restored. (“I am on my own side, but I can listen “ )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“For those who have dwelt in depression's dark wood, and known its inexplicable agony, their return from the abyss is not unlike the ascent of the poet, trudging upward and upward out of hell's black depths and at last emerging into what he saw as "the shining world." There, whoever has been restored to health has almost always been restored to the capacity for serenity and joy, and this may be indemnity enough for having endured the despair beyond despair.

E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.
And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.”
― William Styron, Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness

“Above ground, many of us are ungainly and awkward, slowing down with the years.... Down below, at the pool, we are restored to old youthful selves. Grey hairs vanish beneath dark blue swim caps. Brows unfurrow, limps disappear.”
― Julie Otsuka, The Swimmers

“I would much prefer to be broken than to live out the entirety of my life never having known what it’s like to be healed.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“The yardstick that we frequently use to determine if something can be restored is based on the handful of inches that we bring to the process, when God shows up with an infinite amount of miles.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What is lost is returned to me,
what is far away is near me today.”
― Patrizia Cavalli, My Poems Won't Change the World: Selected Poems

“If I can somehow focus on the pain of not focusing on my pain, I will soon find that pain healed simply because I forced myself to do the exact opposite of what my core humanity demanded I do…I sought to heal the pain of someone else instead.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To live in peace and righteousness is to be restored to God’s dominion”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Nothing Is Excited Than To See God’s Glory Restored”
― Sunday Adelaja

“For irrelevancy to be cancelled in the church, let kingdom priority and pursuit be restored”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Restoration brings refreshment.”
― Lailah Gifty, Akita

“Restoration comes from the Redeemer.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Repent, be restored.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Andy laughed into her margarita glass. "You tell that story with more angst than when Frodo Baggins tells the story of the One Ring, and he lost a fucking finger in that ordeal.”
― Kate Canterbary, Restored

“The notion that grief faded with time? It was inaccurate. No, grief and loss never faded. Absence never quite abated. It lingered, and sometimes it flared, but it never faded. That was the price we paid for the memories that lived on.”
― Kate Canterbary, Restored

“If you wish to be restored, repent.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Repent to be restored.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The grace of God restored a man to his glorious state.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Rebirth is the grace of redemption.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“A man is restored to his gracious state through repentance than any religious action.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Continuous daytime full spectrum light therapy restored my circadian rhythm and I was waking up at sunrise with the birds.”
― Steven Magee

“In repentance, man's relationship with his Maker is restored”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Rescued,
Restored,
Rededicated.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I would ask two questions. The first is, “How is that which is dead within me any different from anything else that God has raised from the dead?” And the second question would be, “How is His passion to raise the dead within me any different than His passion to raise anything else that He has raised?” And the answer to both is “It is not and it is not.” So, am I ready to be raised or am I not?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Redeemed,
Rescued,
Rebirth,
Restored,
Renewed,
Revolutionized.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you wish to be restored, repent.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Any person who drags the ills of the past with them would never be Reconciled to be Restored and Recover”
― Dr Ikoghene S Aashikpelokhai

“We love to talk about the repentance of the prodigal son and the forgiveness of the father, but we seem to miss the part about the son's restoration.”
― Sebastien Richard, Kingdom Fundamentals: What the Kingdom of God Means and What it Means for You | A Thorough and Biblical Exposition of the Kingdom of Heaven as Preached by Jesus

“Repent if you wish to be restored.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“100% restored utilities in Florida does not really mean all!”
― Steven Magee