Quotes About Healing

There is nothing that the nearness of Jesus will not cure.

Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him.

It's not just about the words. It's about how music takes us out of ourselves, how it relieves our pains, lets loose something in our hearts, makes us feel better in ways we never knew we could.

cada vez que pensamos demasiado en el pasado, que volvemos una y otra vez sobre un episodio doloroso, y el psicoanálisis se reduce a poco más que eso, incrementamos las posibilidades de reproducirlo.

En lugar de avanzar, nos echamos tierra encima. Cuando sufrimos por una pena, una decepción, algo que nos impide vivir, tenemos que empezar por mudarnos de casa, quemar las fotos, evitar hablar de ello. Los recuerdos inhibidos se desvanecen; puede llevar su tiempo, pero acaban por desaparecer. La red se desactiva.

Le lien a tenu. Rien ne pouvait le rompre. Mon deuil s'est poursuivi avec l'infinie lenteur du souvenir qui s'enfonce dans la mémoire. Mais j'ai recommencé à tourner les yeux vers l'avenir. J'ai accordé plus d'attention, et plus d'amour aux vivants.

Maybe becoming a spiritually healthy family is not about becoming a perfect family but rather following a perfect God together. And in doing so, to find peace with Him, our pasts, and our family members.

It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.

When we refuse to forgive others of their wrongs - even blaming them for our circumstances - we cripple ourselves from moving forward.

Secrets work on me like splinters. I like them out.

There's always the literature cure. Take a big box of books out to the desert and read until things shift. Bleak House can cure anything." Lewis smacked the steering wheel. "Bleak House is about my favorite fucking book in the world.

Unforgiveness is a prison. It slams the door on new beginnings and entrenches you in your present pain. It chains the heart and stops it from beating. It suffocates joy and paralyzes your ability to move on. Unforgiveness is the cancer of the soul. It slowly eats away the marrow of your existence and impairs your judgment, your personality and your ability to love again.

And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then—if you allow it—everything else.

I understand that you are still grieving. But we will always be grieving.

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

I was becoming a tree rooted in the soil of tragedy, he said, and with every fresh reading I was watering the roots, sinking deeper, allowing my pain to grow stronger. "Plant your roots in fresh soil," he told me. And so my words were shut away.

Forget about your scar,' he told her. 'It doesn't matter. The Moon has scars, but it's still beautiful.

Once you've taken the knife out of your heart, it makes for a wonderful story.

He said I might be able to fix things that are broken." I glanced around the room. "Did he mean this furniture?

First of all, if prescription drugs actually healed, the whole system would collapse. Really, any large-scale man-made system is going to have corruption.

Forgiveness is not contingent upon what someone else does or doesn't do.

His love changes people. Gives people peace.

I plays Joe's best friend. I am the only one he has ever been able to trust in his life, so I help him understand what happened to him when he was younger.

Maybe you're repeating what you haven't repaired.