Quotes About Healing

I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

We can actually reconstruct our past by examining what we think, say, feel, expect, believe, and do in an intimate relationship now.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

family relationships have made me so ill!

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

I've never been to rehab, I've never been to psychotherapy or the doctor or anything like that. I went to a church and I was prayed for, and I've always had a great relationship with God.

My commitment originated in my own story and my own relationship to violence.

The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left.

We're losing a ritual. We're losing a ritual that I believe is transformative, transcendent, and is at the heart of the patient-physician relationship.

An argument can be made that relationship building is the treatment.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

Your relationship to food is but a reflection of your relationship to yourself, as is everything in your life.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

Music is my higher power

A garden is the best alternative therapy.

Forgiveness begins the healing process - when you forgive God, life, yourself and other people - magic happens within. That's why every religion talks about forgiveness.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion.