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Quotes About Healing

True atonement and holiness place us on the journey to make real the reconciling love of God in our lives and to heal our broken communities across the globe. Our mission is to walk the path by which all things come together.
~ John Paul Lederach
We will find God present throughout the journey toward reconciliation in the depths of fear, in the hopelessness of dark nights, in the tears of reconnection.
~ John Paul Lederach
Reconciliation is understood as both a place we are trying to reach and the journey that we take up with each other.
~ John Paul Lederach
There is hope in forgiveness
~ John Piper
The healing of the soul begins by restoring the glory of God to its flaming, all-attracting place at the center. We are all starved for the glory of God, not self. No one goes to the Grand Canyon to increase self-esteem. Why do we go? Because there is greater healing for the soul in beholding splendor than there is in beholding self.
~ John Piper
God owns and controls all things. And there is nothing that he could give you for Christmas this year that would suit your needs and your longings better than the consolation of Israel and the redemption of Jerusalem, restoration for past losses and liberation from future enemies, forgiveness and freedom, pardon and power, healing the past and sealing the future.
~ John Piper
H]ealing displays the works of God in John 9, and sustaining grace displays the works of God in 2 Corinthians 12. What is common in the two cases is the supreme value of the glory of God. The blindness is for the glory of God. The thorn in the flesh is for the glory of God. The healing is for his glory, and the non-healing is for his glory. Suffering can only have ultimate meaning in relation to God.
~ John Piper
We must not confuse cause with effect. God will heal; that's the effect. But the cause, the reason He will heal, is our repentance. Just electing Christians to office won't change the nation and heal its wounds. Instead, we'll repent and God will then allow godly men and women to be elected to office and He will use them in the healing process.
~ John Price
Confession is good for all of us, but even better for you than for me.
~ John R. Erickson
The best cure for a broken heart is a dozen eggs.
~ John R. Erickson
The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.
~ John Robbins
When diet and lifestyle—often the underlying causes of poor health—are adjusted, the body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, much more quickly than we had once thought possible.
~ John Robbins
have learned that the quality of the relationships we have with other people makes a tremendous difference to our physical as well as emotional health. Loneliness, I discovered in my research, can kill you faster than cigarettes. And by the same token, intimate relationships that are authentic and life-affirming can have enormous and even miraculous healing powers. In
~ John Robbins
Indiferent ce masc? îÈ™i punea pe fa??, nu exista vreo cale de a cicatriza rana sângerând? din ea, nu exista vreo modalitate de a alina durerea care îi m?cina sufletul.
~ John Saul
What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked. "You die, too. And you wait around for your body to catch up.
~ John Scalzi
What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
~ John Shelby Spong
Healing, for Jung, comes with the embrace of our shadow, the acceptance of our evil. Evil too is part of God, Jung suggested, because it too is a part of Being.
~ John Shelby Spong
With no change in the tone of her voice, Lydia began to pray in tongues. And at that instant I felt--actually felt--a wave of warmth pass from her hands into my head and then swiftly down through my chest and arms. The sensation was of heat, but without the effect of heat: I didn't feel flushed or hot. It was like coming close to some immense source of heat, a blast furnace or a sun, that had no burning quality whatever.
~ John Sherrill
To be alive at all is to have scars.
~ John Steinbeck
John Hay points to our our history of getting lost in suffering when, "so close together were pain and antidote.
~ John Taliaferro
Needle marks scarred her hands, the only place on her body she could still find a vessel. She was dissolving and injecting ten to twenty pills a day. The highs weren't really highs anymore, just a break from the bone-deep pain of withdrawal.
~ John Temple
Hey…Pilgrim, You're Gonna Need A Couple Of Stitches
~ John Wayne
We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it no longer controls us and makes the present the slave of the past.
~ John Webster
Those without enough love experience rage, but love drives rage away.
~ John Wesley