Quotes About Healing

So even as we see the horror of death, may we be reminded that in the end, love wins. Mercy triumphs. Life is more powerful than death. And even those who have committed great violence can have the image of God come to life again within them as they hear the whisper of love. May the whisper of love grow louder than the thunder of violence. May we love loudly.

Jesus was Jewish. He went to synagogue "as was his tradition" and celebrated holy days such as Passover. But Jesus also healed on the Sabbath. Jesus points us to a God who is able to work within institutions and order, a God who is too big to be confined. God is constantly coloring outside the lines. Jesus challenges the structures that oppress and exclude, and busts through any traditions that put limitations on love. Love cannot be harnessed.

Beyond miracles, what has lasting significance is love. It wasn't that Jesus healed a leper, but that he touched a leper, because no one touched lepers.

On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, "We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.

Healing from sin is a process we get to participate in. God

we now are invited to extend that same grace to others. We are to be like God and forgive. We are to see people who do evil with the possibility that they can be healed. And we are to extend to them the same grace God extends to us. We are all victims of the crushing power of sin, and all in need of liberation.

In court, as the judge considered the sentence of the police officer, the woman spoke boldly: "He took my family away from me, and I still have a lot of love to give, and he needs to know what love and grace feel like—so I think he should have to come to visit my home in the slums, twice a month, and spend time with me, so that I can be a mother to him, so that I can embrace him, and he can know that my forgiveness is real." We

Lord, use us to heal the broken systems. Equip us with wisdom and foresight. May our lives interrupt injustice with your grace. Amen.

I find it particularly troubling when the cross is used as a weapon to justify violence, bloodshed, and vengeance—the very stuff I'm convinced Jesus came to heal the world of.

Grace makes room for redemption. Grace offers us a vision for justice that is restorative, and dedicated to healing the wounds of injustice. But

This grace does not undo a tragedy or pardon a wrong, but it becomes the first step toward a more hopeful future.

Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing

Augustine said, "The church is a whore, but she's our mother." The early Christians said that if we do not accept the church as our mother, we cannot call God our Father. We are not to leave her, but we are to work for her healing, as we would with a dysfunctional parent. Our work is not "para-church" but "pro-church." The church needs our discontent, and we need the rest of the body of Christ.

Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no way for it to metastasize — it does.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces." [ Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

One of the greatest mysteries in this world is why God chooses to heal some here on earth and not to heal others. It's in those moments when we're asked to trust, even when we can't see.

I'll always be sad that my marriage ended.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Love could restart a stalled heart. Love could comfort and cleanse. Love could renew. Love was a miracle.

You're tough Layla, but you're wounded. You've been hurt one too many times. You've seen too much and you've bled out inside. If someone doesn't start looking out for you, there won't be anything left.

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with tears.

A cat can make you feel well rested when you're tired or turn a rage into a calm just by sitting on your lap. His very nearness is a healing song.

even if things were broken right now. Sometimes it was the cracks that let the light in.