Quotes About Healing

I will pretend I do not have those feelings and eventually they will die from neglect.

She would probably want me to make her mint and grass tea and remedies made out of various ditch weeds, naturally shed tree bark and sun-dried butterfly wings.

A feast of green M&M's is my recipe for healing.

The nurse broke

In that slippery, sliding moment, his disappointment begins to heal. If the bus driver has appeared at this moment, this very day, then there is a reason. All he needs to discover is why. He'll take his time. He'll watch. Surely the reason will be revealed. Reasons usually do.

forgive yourself and you'll get better quicker. We all make mistakes.

Your past can only hurt you if you allow it into your present and your future.

bruises, but as she rubbed at them—making a horrible

Everyone has secrets. Fiction allows people to see themselves in characters, to discover healing and truth when their 'reputation' or shame won't let them pick up a non-fiction book. They can watch characters struggle, then experience the truth that sets them free.

if I walk around with anger in my heart, it just darkens my own soul. Forgiveness is hard, but really, it costs me nothing because it doesn't come from me.

Sometimes God gives us safe places to retreat so we can come back healed.

Forgiveness has no limit. There's an endless supply.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving… It's for yourself. It's hat you do to be set free.

Then Jesus healed the man. I think the important thing here is that we can't always pin down reasons for tragedy. Life is tough—you know that. But every hard moment can be met by God, used by God. That's the glory of it. We can ask why, but we may never find the answer. But we will find God if we turn to Him. In that surrender, He'll turn the tragedy into something for His glory and your eternal good, according to His will.

It's not what happens to us, it's how we respond. Being broken, being empty is part of life. But how we fill up those empty places, how we heal - that's what matters.

God knows how tough it is to forgive, especially when someone has done you wrong. But He does expect you to do it. And He expects you to be patient and trust Him to work in others' lives. Psalm 37. It's one of my favorites, especially when I know God wants me to do something impossible, like forgive.

When you forgive someone, it gives you room in your heart to love them.

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

Forgiveness isn't for the person you're forgiving, Echo. It's for yourself. It's what you do to be set free.

She never considered that her mother's leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.

God's already forgiven you. You need to forgive yourself and let God love you. Be His child, and embrace His grace. You can't create your own heaven on earth. That's His job. If you try to do it yourself, you'll never experience the love of God fulfilling your wildest dreams.

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.

If drugs could heal what was broken inside her, she'd be an addict. Who wouldn't? Sometimes life hurt, and you just had to suck it up. It

but if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.