Quotes About Healing

At the heart of excessive individualism is a broken heart

Love brings up everything unlike itself so that you can let go of fear and be the loving person you truly are.

Along the way there was one thing that held me back, as it does so many other silent sons. This one thing burdens us like a heavy unwanted blanket. Unless we kick it off, it will destroy us. This one thing is—anger.

God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. There shall be no more pain, for the former things have passed away. – Revelation 21:4

But Jesus took him by the hand and lifted him up, and he arose. – Mark 9:27

When Jesus saw their faith, He said to the paralytic, "Son, be of good cheer; your sins are forgiven you." – Matthew 9:2

2 Chronicles 7:14 [If] My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

When you deal with sick minds, never waste time trying to become a healer. The most humane act you can perform for such a person is to state things in such a way that it will make him feel better about how things work out—especially if it involves your getting paid. After all, you can cause him a great deal of stress if you allow him to believe that he might actually be paying you what he owes you.

There is no debt between people who are in love; there is only total forgiveness, and going forward.

Interspersed within those meditations are reflections on issues important for both a spirituality of reconciliation and strategies of reconciliation: memory, healing, forgiveness, truth, and ministry.

Reconciliation had touched her heart, and she did not seek revenge. She only wanted an acknowledgment on the part of the new government of what the apartheid government had done.

Reconciliation processes try to create new spaces that are safe for revisiting the experience of trauma.

Yes. You see, the first time I came in here to see you, I simply watched how you sat with me; then I began sitting with myself in the same way." This is the healing space we hope to offer others in therapy, but naturally we don't always succeed.

Consequently, every healing professional is in danger of impairment in some way to some extent

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

Y vuelves a atrapar mi tristeza para esconderla en tu bolsillo, para alejarla de mi… De nuevo has sembrado el jardín de mis pesadillas con nuevos sueños

Her abstinence from her recollections had been a matter of survival.

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

If you cannot undo what you have done, you are trapped. It is easy to understand how helpless and hopeless you then feel and why you might want to give up. . . . Restoring what you cannot restore, healing the wound you cannot heal, fixing that which you broke and you cannot fix is the very purpose of the atonement of Christ.

A leap of faith is required if we are to believe that nonviolence can heal a violent world, that turning the other cheek when struck, instead of striking back, can end a fight. We need faith to believe that by loving our enemy we can eventually transform him into an ally; that even when nonviolence fails to achieve peace, it can succeed in curing hate.**

Home is not only the place you start from, but the place you come back to...where dreams are sustained, hurts healed, where our stories are told.

Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.

His days as a globe-trotting epidemiologist might be over—Dr. Levinson had made that perfectly clear—but his efforts to save Lantos, and now Nika, had reminded him of the satisfaction to be had from healing just one person. What was that old Hebrew proverb he'd once heard Dr. Levinson herself say—"If you save one life, it's the same as saving the whole world." Right now the only life he wanted to save, even more than his own, was Nika's.