Quotes About Healing

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

Honest listening is one of the best medicines we can offer the dying and the bereaved.

Death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

People after death become complete again. The blind can see, the deaf can hear, cripples are no longer crippled after all their vital signs have ceased to exist.

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

No mother should lose her child.

The dead sit at our tables long after they have gone.

A thousand goodbyes come after death - the first six months of bereavement.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

Death laid its eggs in the wound

I took about a year to fully adjust. Like there's a death at the family or a divorce, you don't just snap your fingers and it's over.

Dying to be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing.

it, making amends to father is hard work—all that hacking through the undergrowth of stale pathology with the machete of one's guilt.

3) Take a vacation from your grievances. (4) The regularity of it isn't totally worthless.

We feel pain as an outrage; Jesus did too, which is why he performed miracles of healing. In Gethsemane, he did not pray, "Thank you for this opportunity to suffer," but rather pled desperately for an escape. And yet he was willing to undergo suffering in service of a higher goal. In the end he left the hard questions ("if there be any other way . . .") to the will of the Father, and trusted that God could use even the outrage of his death for good.

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

As the books of Job, Jeremiah, and Habakkuk clearly show, God has a high threshold of tolerance for what appropriate to say in a prayer. God can handle my unsuppressed rage. I may well find that my vindictive feelings need God's correction - but only by taking those feelings to God will I have the opportunity for correction and healing.

Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he did meet skeptics he could not convince and sinners he could not convert. Forgiveness of sins requires an act of will on the receiver's part, and some who heard Jesus' strongest words about grace and forgiveness turned away unrepentant.

Imperfection is the prerequisite for grace. Light only gets in through the cracks.