Quotes About Healing

When people try to take their own lives, they often don't want to be brought back. When you catch them in time, as is this case, they have a second chance. But they have to want that chance. You see Mrs. Whitman, I have no idea why your daughter did this to herself, but she seems to have no will to live.

As his lips moved with exquisite gentleness from the bruise in her hairline to the bandaged cut over her left eyebrow, he knew that he somehow possessed the power to kiss her and make her better. It was a puzzling, inexplicable kind of certainty that came only in dreams. It was an idea so complex and fragile that if he even blinked, he feared he would lose it.

She thought she had been saved by his love for her, and in part she had been. It had cleansed her, never casting blame. But that had been only the beginning. It was loving him in return that had brought her up out of the darkness.

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Love cleanses, beloved. It doesn't beat you down. It doesn't cast blame.

Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars.

Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1

Some wounds broke open and had to be stitched closed with patience and prayer.

All the way back, she had imagined him gloating and taunting, rubbing her face in her own broken pride. Instead, he knelt before her and washed her dirty, blistered feet.

Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and wonderful results. JAMES 5:16

You know, sometimes you can hurt yourself more by trying to keep yourself from being hurt!" Miriam called after her.

We grieve for those we've lost, but it's the living that cause us the most pain....

She destroyed his dreams, and he made her wind chimes.

Su mente le decía que lo que había salido mal nunca podría ser corregido. Lo que se había perdido nunca podría ser recuperado. Pero su corazón tenía esperanzas

Tell me how on God's green earth we can dare offer salvation to a dying world when we're so busy shooting our own wounded.

Love cleanses, beloved. It doesn't beat you down. It doesn't cast blames. My love isn't a weapon. It's a lifeline. Reach out and take hold, and don't let go.

If I run I may fall down and break myself. But could you not be mended? asked the girl. Oh yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know.

The sudden loss of her father was like living with a wound that would never heal, yet her memories of him were fading more and more every day.

The scars of war are not always visible.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, diesen Welten nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.

Only that I've never met a psychoanalyst who didn't – at least subconsciously – offer his system as a substitute for religion. Present company included. We set ourselves up as little gods – all-knowing, all-healing. People resent that and rightly. We have polite labels for our failures. We agree among ourselves that anything bearing one of those labels is, of course, incurable.' Dr