Quotes About Healing

If I had not had music in my life, I would be the neurasthenic vision of the playwright.

I grew up in a sad, depressed place. I got out. Poetry saved my life.

He invites us to eat Him up—to get Him and His Word into our gut, into our nerve endings, our reflexes, and our bloodstream such that He naturally flows out of our lives in acts of love and holiness, healing, evangelism, and justice.26 This is resolute feasting, the central act of the soul. Not pecking around the margins. Not nibbling as you would a snack.

He said he was learning to open his Chi and control it through his hands, which he can make become hot.

frees the body to heal itself. In taking away the fear, confusion and feelings of victimization so characteristic of TMS, we give the body a chance to do "its own thing.

Readers who are interested in an excellent review of where medicine is today vis-à-vis the mind-body connection should read The Healer Within by Steven Locke, MD, and Douglas Colligan (New York: Dutton, 1986).

A very popular recent book on the subject is Love, Medicine, and Miracles by the Yale surgeon Bernie Siegel (New York: Harper & Row, 1986).

The Healer Within by Steven Locke, MD, and Douglas Colligan (New York: Dutton, 1986).

In his well-known book The Anatomy of an Illness, Norman Cousins described how he overcame one of these autoimmune disorders, ankylosing spondylitis (a form of rheumatoid arthritis), by recognizing that it was emotionally induced and introducing a kind of humor therapy plus vitamin C.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

somehow we have overlooked the fact this treasured called the heart can also be broken, has been broken, and now lies in pieces down under the surface. When it comes to habits we cannot quit or patterns we cannot stop, anger that flies out of nowhere, fears we cannot overcome, or weaknesses we hate to admit--much of what troubles us comes out of the broken places in our hearts crying out for relief. Jesus speaks as if we are all brokenhearted. We would do well to trust His perspective on this.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

Grief is a form of validation; it says the wound mattered. It mattered. You mattered. That's not the way life was supposed to go.

It has been said, "Time heals all wounds." I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

It's a lot easier to heal an injured body than a damaged soul.

IT'S BEEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS SINCE ALYSS'S DEATH

an herbalist—

Patience is the best medicine.

GOD ALWAYS WAS THE HEALER. He is the healer still, and will ever remain the Healer. Healing is for YOU. Jesus healed, "all that came to Him." He never turned any one away. He never said, "It is not God's will to heal you," or that it was better for the individual to remain sick, or that they were being perfected in character through the sickness. He healed them ALL. Thereby demonstrating FOREVER God's unchangeable will concerning sickness.

Because of the fact that a man by the action of his will, puts himself purposely in contact with God, faith takes possession of his heart, and the condition of his nature is changed. Instead of being fearful, he is full of faith. Instead of being absorbent and drawing everything to himself, his spirit repels sickness and disease. The Spirit of Christ Jesus flows through the whole being, and emanates through the hands, the heart, and from every pore of the body.

the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up

Jesus did not heal the sick in order to coax them to be Christians. He healed because it was His nature to heal.

the words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche...