Quotes About Healing

Upon the offender's repentance (v. 29; Luke 17:3), God requires us to forgive from the heart (v. 35).

that you should forgive those who have wronged you if for no other reason than to benefit yourself, and that your forgiveness will probably benefit you more than those you forgive. This is unbiblical.

No matter what issues you face today, you are miserable and you are dying because your sin has separated you from God. Putting a bandage over a rotting cancer is not going to cure you. You

I knew well enough that one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

É a primeira vez depois de muitos meses que eu pego um livro nas mãos. Isto me diz muito e me cura consideravelmente.

On commence par tuer, on finit par guerir," [One begins by killing, one ends by healing] is a doctor's saying. One starts with a hopeless struggle to follow nature, and everything goes wrong; one ends by calmly creating from one's palette, and nature agrees with it, and follows.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

The trick was learning to live without the grief and without the guilt. The trick was to create a life worth living, a life no longer conscious of death.

sometimes, the past should not only be forgotten, it should be destroyed.

What is it that draws us back to the broken places? Maybe

Les morts font de ceux qui restent des fabricateurs de récits.

without truth, people cannot heal. If we ignore the root cause of our wounds, we will continue to be wounded, even if we heal some of the damage. We might fix what has been harmed. But if we continue doing what caused the harm in the first place, we will simply acquire (or inflict) new wounds because the core activity has not changed.

You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?

I know why writers write- they write to untangle the knots in their hearts.

my own instinctive feeling is that you do not work through bereavement. It works through you. It is the passivity that's involved in bereavement, the feeling that something terrible is being done to you – which it is – that is the most frightening.

When you're bereaved you're so all over the place that you might find a book heart-warming on a Tuesday and mindless nonsense on a Wednesday.

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

Changer, c'est toujours perdre un bloc de soi. On le sent qui se détache, après un temps d'adaptation. C'est un deuil et un soulagement en même temps.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.

After two days in the hospital, I took a turn for the nurse.

You and Psychiatry. (You and Psychiatry, Menninger and Leaf, Scribner's, New York, 1948)