Quotes About Healing

How do you make someone understand what it means or how it feels to be torn in half? Not many people know this desperate need to be put back together again.

My heart, soul, body, and mind all have scars that will never properly heal. Still, I survived.

Belief.' He reached into his vest and pulled out the silver aquila that he wore alongside his old dog-tags. 'In wartime, call it courage. In peacetime, call it faith. In the Guard, I saw men do amazing things... fight off infection, heal wounds... just because they believed. And I saw men die just because they didn't.

Jake's father, Doc Polson, had tended to hundreds of scraped knees and bumped heads. He'd set four broken arms and fixed dozens of sprained ankles before people got used to hopping on and off the moving wagons. He'd also salved a couple of dozen scalds and burns, he'd sat up with a child with croup for three nights, and he'd even delivered two babies, with the help of Aunt May, the midwife.

We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.

The damage done through abuse is awful and heinous, but minor compared to the dynamics that distort the victim's relationship with God and rob her of the joy of loving and being loved by others.

In those moments of unnaming when we have lost ourselves, we must remember to return to our past redemptions to find God's mark of glory on our abandonment, betrayal, and shame. We wrongly believe that we will be happy if we can escape the past. But without our past we are hollow and plastic beings who have only common names and conventional stories. When we enter into our story at the point we lost our name, we are most likely to hear the whisper of our new name.

If we enter our story in heartache, we will hear the whisper of the name that will one day be ours.

Mithra's birth was witnessed by shepherds and by Magi who brought gifts to his sacred birth-cave of the Rock. Mithra performed the usual assortment of miracles: raising the dead, healing the sick, making the blind see and the lame walk, casting out devils.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

All it took was a couple weeks and boom--they sucked the crazy out of you and your soul went with it.

Because I have to treat the mental part of my disease. Quitting booze is one thing. Living with my brain sober is another.

Psychiatrist E. Fuller Torey proposed that psychotherapy is little more than a culturally specific healing ritual, similar to that of folk healers in primitive cultures.

But you can't escape from heartache. That's the rub. It always finds a way back.

Heal another's heart and in the process you will heal your own.

For too many sons, this emotional breach between them and their fathers remains a lifelong source of sadness, anger, bitterness, or shame.

He was hooked to machines with a nursing staff at his beck and call.

God's salvation is a gift. We were nothing but corpses on the run from God's reign. But God, in his grace, chased us down, overcame our resistance, and began to heal our sin-infected will. His grace gives us hearts of compassion, love for neighbors and friends, and it empowers us with boldness to share the message of redemption. God's grace is an overcoming grace.

What left a mark No longer stings Because grace makes beauty Out of ugly things. U2, "Grace

Resentment has a way of metastasizing into bitterness, and bitterness has a way of curdling into the kind of anger that can doom a relationship.

There is a fullness and calmness there which can come only from knowing pain.

Statistically, people recover or die at the same rate with or without attempted faith healing.

Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.