Quotes About Healing

When my father passed away, my mom didn't really know what to do and how to deal with it for me, so she put me in extracurricular classes, one of them being theater.

My mother passed in 2002. That was a blow like no other blow.

After my mother passed away, I really felt there were things that I hadn't said or things that I did say that I kind of regretted saying.

'Hell Or High Water' was written after the end of a relationship, and I do feel like every Passenger album has the obligatory break-up song.

My mum passing away wasn't funny, but that funeral and what I went through, the things that happened, looking back at it, there were funny moments. You have to be strong enough to look back at it, to sit and assess the situation.

I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.

My mother definitely plays a big role in my life and in my work. The majority of what I've created has to do with her passing and how I dealt with losing the most important person in my life.

I think everyone, especially after the passing of a loved one, starts to hope that maybe there will be something better on the other side.

After what happened with my mom passing, I was just like I need to get back. I just need to get back to my routine, get back to playing basketball.

De weduwe kuste haar vingers en legde ze daarna tegen mijn voorhoofd. 'Zet Sasja uit je hoofd,' zei ze. 'Leef je leven op de plek waar je bent.

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chronicles 7:14).

Do I want you to write to me? Indeed I do.... The others break my heart, but you will not. You a something divine in you that is not in other men. You have the touch that heals, not lacerates. And you know the secret places of our hearts... You have seen our whole voyage... [Y]ou see us not, chartless, adrift - derelicts.

Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn't know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We're often a damn sight more resilient than we'd imagine.

When you feel empty, you have to open up your heart and let the wind sweep through it.

Our churches are filled with "leaking" Christians who have not treated their emotions as a discipleship issue.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

Peter Scazzero

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

Using God to run from God Ignoring anger, sadness, and fear Dying to the wrong things Denying the impact of the past on the