Quotes About Healing

Maybe this is common to all those who lose someone whom they have loved deeply. Making contact with another potential partner, another lover, becomes an act of reconstruction, a building not only of a relationship but also of oneself.

wants to accept that someone close might have taken his or her own life. Too much blame accrues to those left behind for it to be accommodated so easily.

A veces necesitamos nuestro dolor. Lo necesitamos para considerarlo nuestro.

In the space of one night, [I] had gone through the possessions of my dead wife and child, sorting, discarding, smelling the last traces of them that clung to their clothing like the ghosts of themselves.

Parker had seen men and women physically diminished in this way before, weighed down by suffering. Grief has its own gravity. They

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

Children's aesthetic sense is a deep half-animal feeling and when it is outraged it leaves a wound behind it that never quite heals up.

People must realize that the Christian begins from the finish line. Robert Capon says brilliantly, "the flat announcement of the Gospel turned out to be that the saints were home before they started. God saves us single-handedly!"19 We are already inner healed. Just turns out that most folks don't know it. It is all a completed work of grace.

Having spent years in healing ministry, I've seen the whole machine become obsessed with looking for roots and causes to the problems of sickness, rather than resting in the simple reality that by His stripes we are already healed. The Gospel is always the antidote. Let's start with the answer, not the problem. It is the higher reality to which we continually appeal, even when circumstances fly seemingly opposite.

He became sin so you could be holy. He was broken so you could be whole. He was a man of sorrow, so you could have joy. He was bruised for your iniquity. He fasted so you could feast. By His stripes, you were healed. He bore poverty, so you could righteously prosper. He felt orphaned so you could be adopted as sons. Let us begin to see Him not so much as a teacher or moral guide, but as one who stepped in and took our place.

Whilst my physicians by their love are grownCosmographers, and I their map, who lieFlat on this bed.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

Every person in therapy has a love disorder.

I've gone through a really hard divorce, and anyone who has gone through a divorce will speak about how hard the journey is from start to finish. It's a life-uprooting time.

Be ready for reconciliation after quarrels.

Seven years sober. I'm really grateful. It's really lovely to be present in my life.

If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Do not imagine you can exorcise what oppresses you in life by giving vent to it in art.

I think we seek out people who we hope will fix what our childhood broke.

Life tears at us and scars us as children so we adopt facades and masks to hide this part of us, to keep this sacred part of ourselves from the pain.

There's another advantage to being poor - a doctor will cure you faster.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.