Quotes About Healing

Disasters have a way of making us stronger in the broken places.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

Ed Welch says that all counseling is a variation on a single theme: knowing and praying for the counselee. Of all the questions the counselor might ask, then, the central guiding question in the counselor's mind is, "How can I pray for you?

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

God can and will wipe all that shame and sadness away if you will only repent.

We were a religious sect consisting of two people, and now half the congregation was gone. There would be no closure, no healing. I would simply adjust myself to a new and severely depleted reality. The world would come to an end, as it always does, one world at a time.

Everything I have described so far seems to have happened to somebody else—to somebody else's father. But the death of a parent happens to you, and, once it starts, it never stops. It dislodges everything.

I know that I'll move on, I tell myself I'll find me something better I'll let go and just forget her She was no good for me Deep down I know that's the way it has to be so How come I still can't open this letter I can't forget her...

Within South Korean Christian churches, there has been an explosion of ministries of pastoral care and counseling in recent decades. Every family has its own story of trauma to tell, and many people seek understanding of how they can find healing for their trauma. In situations of trauma, people seek religious answers to why things have happened as they have, and what resources will bring the possibility of surviving and thriving again. Within the interreligious context

The Contributions of Korean Christian Churches Korean Christians have unique contributions to make to our understanding of pastoral theology and counseling. Pastoral counselors and theologians from the United States should look to the South Korean Christian churches and other Asian churches for conversation partners about the nature of care and healing in today's world.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.

When I am healed I am restored to my center in a way that my freedom as a person is not compromised by my loss of functions.

Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.

No one emerges from a troubled childhood without the battle scars to prove it. It is amazing that we fare as well as we do.

Carla had the American woman's fixed idea that love can cure, love can heal, love can bind a flowing wound.

Ben Franklin said it well: "Quacks are the greatest liars in the world, except their patients.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world." — Marianne Williamson

rather may be cured.

Time did indeed heal all wounds, but it left a nasty, unforgiving scar

The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

DAVE THE SHRINK HAD mentioned more than once that he wished I would develop a hobby—advice I resented, as the hobbies he suggested (racquetball, table tennis, bowling) all seemed incredibly lame. If he thought a game or two of table tennis was going to help me get over my mother, he was completely out to lunch.

when my cat died I had to go out and borrow all these Simon and Garfunkel records.

Qualunque cosa ci insegni a parlare con noi stessi è importante qualunque cosa ci insegni a cullarci fino a uscire dalla disperazione.