Quotes About Healing

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

Loss means losing what was. We want to change but we don't want to lose. Without time for loss, we don't have time for soul.

Receive Communion often, very often...there you have the sole remedy, if you want to be cured. Jesus has not put this attraction in your heart for nothing.

I cry a lot. My emotions are very close to my surface. I don't want to hold anything in so it festers and turns into pus - a pustule of emotion that explodes into a festering cesspool of depression.

Love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

God wants to wipe away your past and lift your burdens. Do you let Him?

When we have fights in our family, they don't end with an apology. You make up by getting back to normal. Like you'll call and say, 'You want to go shopping?'

God wants His people well, but it is up to us to make the decision to walk in health.

Christ says he is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We want to be sure he is with us in everything we do, especially as we're trying to bring anything like Christ's healing to a relationship.

Living a regret-free life means being honest about everything you did to help create your regrets and honest about how you felt when someone else was hurtful to you.

Like Shelley, in order to change and engage the process of trust building, I, too, needed to come to terms with the truth that God was ultimately the change agent and healer. He is the true trust builder. He is the master architect and artist shaping any sculpture. If both Shelley and I lean on him for our journey of rebuilding our relationship, then neither of us must lean against each other.

Words can be the tonic that kills regrets before they have a chance to grow.

Every Heart Restored

We are never so loving toward others as when we have learned to be loving toward ourselves.

Admitting that you're broken truly is the first step to getting fixed.

Not being able to forgive yourself for your boneheaded, arrogant, and selfish actions is one of the biggest inhibitors to living the life God most wants you to live.

And admitting that you can't fix yourself—that only God can—is the first step to staying fixed.

Fixing a broken relationship is all about loving and giving from a heart filled with God's compassionate presence.

I believed this book could transform more marriages more deeply than nearly any marriage book I could think of.

The courage to confess, bring into the light, and openly share one's hidden fears or shameful ways is the sure path to freedom.

Pay attention to unresolved conflicts in your life.

In order to recover we must follow the example of this woman. We cannot afford to stand back, hoping for "cures," and avoid deliberate action because of our lack of faith. We may have lived with our condition for many years, spending our resources on promising "cures" without success. When we can come to believe in God, a power greater than ourself, and have the faith to take hold of our own recovery, we will find the healing power we have been looking for.

If you're feeling regret about something you did or said to someone, please talk with that person. Tell them you're feeling bad. Let them do for you what people really enjoy doing for others: relieving someone of regret.