Quotes About Healing

If you're dealing with some ancient ruins, He was there when they crumbled. He knows every detail. He knows exactly how you've been affected, and His expertise is reconstruction. After all, Christ was a carpenter by trade. Nothing has ever been allowed to crumble in a Christian's life or heritage that God cannot reconstruct and use.

it is likely that each one of us has experienced God's miraculous healing any number of times without knowing it—every day that our fragile tents of flesh hold together.

He touched their eyes, saying, "Let it be done for you according to your faith!" Matthew 9:29

Withholding forgiveness until an offender understands or acknowledges the emotional pain they have inflicted is a subtle form of revenge. Why? Because it's hoping that the offender would hurt a little too, in order to understand. But this type of revenge robs you of your freedom and allows the offender to keep control of you. Dr. Chuck Lynch, I Should Forgive, but .

In order to accuse Him, they asked Him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?" Matthew 12:10

Please forgive your brothers' transgression and their sin—the wrong they caused you. Genesis 50:17

become increasingly convinced that those we need to forgive most often grasp the least how much they've hurt us.

She said to herself, " If I can just touch His robe, I'll be made well!" Matthew 9:21

Forgivness is not just for the offender. It is also for the one who is offended. If we do not forgive, we end up in perpetual anger and bitterness and eventually offend others with our words or actions. If we forgive, we experience a letting go or cleansing process that frees us from the offender.

A requiem is meant to bring comfort.

There's enormous energy required to carry grudges - enormous energy! And I'm getting too old to expend my energy that way, cause I think every person has a limited amount of energy. So I have given up all grudges.

Raising or caring for children requires sacrifice and service, which, I believe, heals us from the destructive forces of self-centeredness.

When you've been bereaved, you expect other people to rescue you, but I'm afraid they can't - it's down to you.

A doctor can save maybe a few hundred lives in a lifetime. A researcher can save the whole world.

In my experience, it's quite an empowering thing to forgive someone because you take control and take ownership of that feeling, of that resentment, and that power that they have taken from you, and in some way, you end up being able to turn it around.

If you are filled with resentment, try letting that feeling come and then let that feeling go.

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

Forgive: Make a conscious decision to cease to harbor resentment, which includes forgiving a debt and giving up one's resolve to retaliate.

I've had - after my mom passed away - like a lot of resentment, a lot of things that just happened after I lost my mom.

I just put my anger and resentment into basketball. Even the stuff from my childhood.

I always tell myself that nothing ever is worth holding onto if it hurt you, because the longer you hold onto anger and resentment, the longer you feed it and keep it alive.

You can't shut down. You can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?' You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day, you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.