Quotes About Healing

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

Grief isn't a luxury, it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.

Ódio, ressentimento e raiva são parasitas que se alimentam do coração até que não haja nada para nutrir o amor." A Promessa.

We're two broken people, aren't we?' [Richelle Bach] He [Justin Ek] nodded. 'That's okay. Broken things usually fit better together.

I was raised Catholic. I went to church every Sunday with my family, then came home and got beaten up by my old man. He beat God right out of me.

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

You darling, sweet man. I'm so sorry for your pain. I wish I could have taken it from you. But you've carried it long enough. You need to let it go.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate ... It's God's apology for broccoli.

Most of us were taught that God would love us if and when we change. In fact, God loves you so that you can change. What empowers change, what makes you desirous of change is the experience of love. It is that inherent experience of love that becomes the engine of change.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made.

The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in some measure sick of some spiritual disease or other, so all have occasion to exercise the spirit of wisdom and meekness.

He died that he might heal our souls with a plaster of his own blood, and by that death save us, which we were the procurers of ourselves, by our own sins.

I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.

Dear Forgiveness, you know that recently we have had our difficulties and there are many things I want to ask you.

Cut me open and the light streams out. Stitch me up and the light keeps streaming out between the stitches

Unseen wounds are very painful, even more painful than the wounds you can see." It was clear to me that he was talking about himself too.

So do yourself a favour. Go away and hide somewhere while you lick your wounds. Enjoy your friends and your family, and wait until you've recovered a bit before you start looking for a new partner. And when you do, try to pick someone whose scars are relatively well-healed too – because of course this works the other way round as well. That way you can both see each other as you really are, and start your relationship the way you want to continue it.

May your home be so holy with laughter that wounded birds lean against your door to listen and heal. – Richard Van Camp's Twitter and Facebook Posts, July 22, 2017 (Ma traduction en français : Que votre maison soit si bénie par le rire que les oiseaux blessés s'appuient contre votre porte pour écouter et guérir.)