Quotes About Healing

much followed from that hurried ceremony in the flower-speckled clearing beside the stream. So many died. There was so much heartache, so much blood and so many tears that they would have made a great river; yet, in time, the eddies smoothed, new rivers joined, and the tears went down to the great wide sea and some people forgot how it ever began. The time of glory did come, yet what might have been never did, and of all those who were hurt by that moment in the sun, Arthur was hurt the most.

Mourning died slowly. It never fully dies for something truly loved.

La mort était le meilleur remède contre tous les petits maux de l'existence.

No quiero desterrarte de mi vida. Siempre tendrás un lugar en mi corazón, un cofrecillo tuyo y de nadie más ante el que de vez en cuando me detendré para pensar en ti. Pero a hora tengo que cerrar el cofrecillo para poder atender otras cosas. De otro modo, duele demasiado.

The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.

This becomes the pattern of being alive: cut apart, heal together, cut apart, heal together. Everything breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, but I'm still able to call them all in, know their names, keep track of them.

Have you told anyone?" asked Kara. "Your parents?" "Not yet," said Maddy. "I wanted to finish this first. I had to." "Yeah," said August. "If I had something like that hanging around my gut, I'd want to get it out too. It's like the end of the world." "And the beginning," said Maddy.

nobody owns grief

It's how we survive the hurt in life that brings us strength and gives us beauty.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

The human mind is an amazing thing. It protects us when we can't protect ourselves. Sometimes when we're holding pain and it gets to be too heavy or goes too deep, we have to give in to it, let it knock us over and pull us all the way down. Once we hit bottom, we rest in a quiet place for a while. Then, when the pain eases and we're ready to face the world again, we come right back up.

When something seems wrong in your life, the only way to have resolution with it is to let it go. Trying to make it right keeps it wrong.

I assure you that some of the most awesome things God has ever done for me have come out of the most awful things I'd done to myself.

Lord, please help me to revere Your name. You have promised that, if I do, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings and that I will go out and leap like a calf released from the stall. (Mal. 4:2)

God may not always will for us to be physically healed in these earthly bodies or tangibly prosperous, but He always wills for us to be free from strongholds.

Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain.

When He entered the house, the blind men approached Him, and Jesus said to them, " Do you believe that I can do this?" Matthew 9:28

I've become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us. If they understood and took responsibility, it wouldn't have taken the Cross to forgive them. It could have just happened over coffee.

Psalm 107:20 says, "He sent forth his word and healed them.

As a result, they were all astounded and gave glory to God, saying, "We have never seen anything like this!" Mark 2:12

Christ came to set the captive free—no matter what kind of yoke binds them. He came to bind up the brokenhearted—no matter what broke the heart. He came to open the eyes of the blind—no matter what veiled their vision.

Your injured heart will be protected by your doing what is right until you feel what is right.

If we offer what we've experienced to Him, in all its horror and ugliness, and receive His offer to redeem all that occurred, He will bring fruit from it. This has been the single most healing aspect of my recovery from childhood victimization. This is my prayer for that precious little girl. And my prayer for you, too, if you've experienced something similar.

Wholeness will only come when we give ourselves wholly to God and let Him fill every empty place in our lives.