Quotes About Healing

The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted.

remembering and forgiving can be contrary things

You must forgive in order to understand.

There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all. Avoid

remembering and forgiving can be contrary things. No doubt they usually are.

This perfect quiet had settled into their house after the death of their father. That event had troubled the very medium of their lives. Time and air and sunlight bore wave and wave of shock, until all the shock was spent, and time and space and light grew still again and nothing seemed to tremble, and nothing seemed to lean.

When you're scalded, touch hurts, it makes no difference if it's kindly meant. Now

her father was soothed by these attentions, as if pain were an appetite for comforting of just this kind.

And grace is the great gift. So to be forgiven is only half the gift. The other half is that we also can forgive, restore, and liberate, and therefore we can feel the will of God enacted through us, which is the great restoration of ourselves to ourselves.

The second you walk off down that road I'll start telling myself you're gone for good, and why wouldn't you be, and I'll start trying to hate you for it. I will hate you for it. I might even leave here entirely.

This came to my mind because remembering and forgiving can be contrary things.

There is never just one transgression. There is a wound in the flesh of human life that scars when it heals and often enough seems never to heal at all.

Les gens éprouvent une grande souffrance, et nous passons tous notre temps à essayer de la refouler. Et quand on refoule une souffrance émotionnelle assez longtemps elle se transforme en souffrance physique.

His wife killed him. Too simple. His childhood, his mother, his father, his siblings? Even if the scars of childhood heal, you never grow out of being vulnerable. Age is no shield against trauma.

The way to healing an addiction lies in finding a connection between body and soul.

Healing needs listening with the inner ear, stopping the incessant blather, listening.

Time leeches most horror and pain from our memories.

Most of the kids had been so mentally screwed up by their parents they needed more than twelve weeks of wilderness. They needed reincarnation. To die and just come back as a grasshopper, as a fucking weed. That'd be preferable to the agony they were in just by being alive.

Bad people are dangerous but forgiving them is too.

One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. Let me just say it like it is: If you don't have any problems, you don't have any potential. Here's why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you've been wounded.

The perfect wound was one that was not mortal, debilitating, or disfiguring, but that was bad enough to get you out.

Man, God really does love medics.

The church was custom built by Jesus, and we are all works in progress. We do not expect people to get their sin in order before attending church any more than a hospital expects people to get healed before they show up.

Forgiveness is not reconciliation. It takes one sinner to repent, and one victim to forgive, but it takes both to reconcile. Therefore, unless there is both repentance by the sinner and forgiveness by the victim, reconciliation cannot occur