Quotes About Healing

Preparing for death is one of the most profoundly healing acts of a lifetime. For

It is as though there is a splinter working its way to the surface, only this splinter is in your soul. And just as the skin wants a foreign object gone and pushes it out, the soul wants to be healthy and will not leave you in peace until you stop drenching it with the poisons of your feelings about the past.

So we forgive. We send away the wrongs done to us. We let people out of the little cages we keep them in while we enjoy our feelings of moral superiority. We hand the feelings of wrong to God and refuse to ever take them back. Then we shut up and never mention the matter again. When the time comes, we put our arm around the offender and we ask him how he is.

But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain—the pain that registers inside—the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives.

But running from emotional pain is never a good idea, as it only leaves us damaged of soul and hindered in our ability to fulfill our purpose. We have to turn and face our torturous seasons and the scars they try to leave on our hearts.

The more you rehearse the wrongs against you and the more you stay in that trap, the more the syringes of bitterness release their toxins into your soul.

The solution is to forgive, to let go of the bait in that trap and pull yourself free.

When I look at those I want to forgive, I strive to not see them in evil terms, but to find the compassionate narrative behind their hurtful actions against me.

Facing the reality of that painful season when it felt as though you were in a sandstorm with no skin is the key to becoming whole now.

that the poisoning of souls through church hurts is killing us.

It is not enough that the mess is cleaned up, like a house being prepared for company. We can only be satisfied when the condition of our hearts that led to the mess in the first place is challenged, healed, and turned onto a healthy, Christlike path.

Now let the gate of sorrow be closed behind me, and let it be sealed with tar and pitch.

As you open yourself to the next three habits—the habits of Public Victory—you will discover and unleash both the desire and the resources to heal and rebuild important relationships that have deteriorated, or even broken. Good relationships will improve—become deeper, more solid, more creative, and more adventuresome.

Chasing after the poisonous snake that bites us will only drive the poison through our entire system. It is far better to take measures immediately to get the poison out.

Something in her expression made Covenant feel that he came from a very poor world, where no one knew or cared about healing stoneware pots.

Mending is harder than breaking

Admonitions took over the ravaged playground of his mind.

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken. ~Thomas Covenant

When the dawn came to wake him, he met it as if it were an affront to his sanity. He found that his feet were already growing tougher, and his cut hand had healed almost completely.

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.

Only a self-obsessed ego can be wounded. Action itself can't be wounded. Spirit can't be wounded.

A wound only begins to heal when you make it scream. Pain is the key, a message from the brain that the blood flows again into mending flesh, that your will shall conquer weakness. If you lie there and try to fight it, you'll simply rot.