Quotes About Healing

Besides, things you loved deeply could be lost in a second, and then there was no filling the hole left inside you.

He put a hand to the cool, painted stones bearing witness to so many names, so many histories. In the mural, there were painted lines for the Underground, like scars stretched across the skin of the infected nation. There were wounds and then there were wounds. Some were so great Memphis had no idea how they could ever be healed.

Haven't you been hurt?" Miss Lillian asked. Theta thought of Roy's fists. Mrs. Bowers's cold cruelty. Even the first wound of abandonment. "Yes." "And here you still are. No. The question is this: Haven't you been hurt enough?

We're all damaged, somehow.

The human heart dares not stay away from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

There are also other factors that make a person attractive to us, which have to do with what we sense we can experience with them, and how think they can enhance the quality of our life. We may feel that they have the capacity to bring more healing, passion, peace, exuberance, ease, fulfillment, or joy into our life.

The repair of these inner wounds can only come about through loving attention and unconditional acceptance from another. The process, however, also reactivates the pain of abuse, neglect, or unfulfilled needs from the past that continue to go unmet in the present. Consequently, there needs to be a willingness to reawaken the pain of the original experiences, which may have been buried in an effort to forget them. But until the pain is re-exposed to the light of compassion, healing cannot occur.

One of the hardest things to accept when someone you love dies is that life goes on. It's like a river that never stops.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

All the hurt, fear, and rejection you have ever felt is what the Lord Jesus felt in the Garden of Gethsemane.

Despite its evils, bitterness holds many of us captive. Forgiveness is the only escape route out of this prison.

forgiveness is not a feeling but a secret choice of the heart.

Going beyond forgiveness is sometimes more difficult than the initial act of forgiving.

I knew God was displeased by my lack of forgiveness, but it was impossible to forget the words that were cemented in my heart. Betrayal hurts.

To speak candidly, with neither justification nor humiliation, relieves the haunting of memory and mind and becomes one way to regain our dignity and our strength.

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

tears have a purpose. they are what we carry of the ocean, and perhaps we must become the sea, give ourselves to it, if we are to be transformed.

Sometimes there is a wellspring or river of something beautiful and possible in the tenderest sense that comes to and from the most broken of children, and I was one of these, and whatever is was, I can't name, I can only thank. Perhaps it is the water of life that saves us, after all.

She hadn't been broken; she'd been furious and hurt, but never broken...

How do you function when your entire body has been overtaken by searing emotional pain? How do you function when a huge hole had been ripped in your life? How do you ever smile again, laugh again, feel joy again? You just do it...Because you have no choice.

Use something broken to make something whole.

Nothing can fix a broken heart except love. Love always repairs those fractures we get in our heart.

words of the reckless pierce like swords,             but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Proverbs 12:18, NIV)

I will search for the lost and bring back the strays. I will bind up the injured and strengthen the weak. (Ezek. 34:16)