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Quotes About Healing

God's love working through you can bring change in a soul. — Jessica Talbot —
~ Gary Chapman
Lord God, thank you for all the wonderful things about my spouse. Please keep those fresh in my mind. Help me to use my words to acknowledge those things. May what I say heal and bring life.
~ Gary Chapman
es posible amar a alguien que se odia?».
~ Gary Chapman
WE EXPECT COUNSELING centers with their commitments to healing and their high degree of training to be community oases. When those values are violated, it strikes us as very strange. Other organizations dealing with social breakdown and crime often hire less trained employees and sometimes the combustible fumes in the air explode.
~ Gary Chapman
Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It
~ Gary Chapman
I'm sorry. I know I have hurt you, but I would like to make the future different. I would like to love you in your language. I would like to meet your needs." I have seen marriages rescued from the brink of divorce when couples make the choice to love.
~ Gary D. Chapman
As North American culture glides toward secularism, significant numbers of church attendees view their church as a place where they gather in safety with others who hold similar beliefs and values. To them, the church is a home where they come each weekend to be healed, comforted, and encouraged before they venture back into an unfriendly world. Instead of being pioneers, venturing out to reach a lost world, numbers of churches have settled down to maintain the farm.
~ Gary L. McIntosh
The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce.
~ Gary Paulsen
You save the world by concentrating on your own forgiveness lessons.
~ Gary R. Renard
After thirty-nine years of being alive, I had forgiven my own parents for not knowing how to care for a child, but that was the depth of my forgiveness.
~ Gary Shteyngart
tikkun olam, or "repairing the world.
~ Gary Shteyngart
The constant theme has been the cultivation of communion with God, prayer and the transformation it brings. In the Orthodox tradition, this is true healing for the soul.
~ Gary W. Moon
An anguishing book offers anguished people a homeopathy of anguish.
~ Gaston Bachelard
Nous souffrons par les rêves. Nous guérissons par les rêves.
~ Gaston Bachelard
The brook will nonetheless teach you to speak, in spite of sorrows and memories
~ Gaston Bachelard
I lay on my back, feeling as if more than the womb had been taken out.
~ Gayl Jones
We would be blind, Auk. As blind as I. Because I have never had eyes of my own, I could not look out through yours. But I shall go with you, and guide you, and use your body to heal you, if I can. Look upon me, Auk." "There's nothing to see," Auk protested. But there was: a stammering light so filled with hope and pleasure and wonder that Auk would willingly have seen nothing else, if only he could have watched it forever.
~ Gene Wolfe
The obsession will end when you love yourself enough to stop hurting yourself. Who doesn't want to take care of what they love?
~ Geneen Roth
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. It's possible to treat yourself with outrageous kindness beginning today.
~ Geneen Roth
If you decided to reteach yourself your own loveliness today, what would you do? How would you speak to yourself? Can you allow yourself that much?
~ Geneen Roth
All any feeling wants is be welcomed with tenderness. It wants room to unfold. It wants to relax and tell its story. It wants to dissolve like a thousand writhing snakes that with a flick of kindness become harmless strands of rope.
~ Geneen Roth
I do believe that there are frozen places in ourselves - undigested pockets of pain - that need to be recognized and welcomed, so that we can contact that which has never been hurt or wounded or hungry.
~ Geneen Roth
Every good enough mother teaches her child that no matter how bad it seems- no matter how many rejections or scraped knees or broken bones there are- it is going to be okay. Maybe not the way we wanted or hoped it would be, but still okay. A good parent returns a child to the place where she can trust that although she might be bitter or hateful for a moment, it's not the end of the world. There is love here. There is light and quiet here. There is peace.
~ Geneen Roth
The most painful thing about the woman whose mother did not want her was not her mothers lack of love, but that in seeing herself the way her mother saw her, she cut herself off from her own love. We believe that because being wanted and being seen and being loved once depended on someone else, they still do.
~ Geneen Roth