Quotes About Healing

I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)

Life is too short to sit around and hold grudges; it doesn't make any sense to do it.

They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.

Suddenly a sorrow the color of dawn welled up in him. They might as well lick each other's wounds. But they would lick forever, and the wounds would never heal, and in the end their tongues would be worn away.

I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.

Grief, and remembering, and loss cannot be predicted or held at bay. She knows, and she lets her anger at the missing... at all the time she let slip away spill from inside her.

Well, you don't really forget the crap, do you? ... You might put a blanket over it & push it to the back of your mind, but that doesn't really make it go away.

Whatever loss you hold against your breastbone... All that loss needs to be colored in & then held to the light.

Somehow the human heart figures out how to move on. It isn't easy but the alternative is a bit much.

This dying & grief stuff knows no boundaries. It doesn't matter if the pain of loss is for a baby, an elderly parent, someone who drops dead at 30, the sorrow & grief doesn't change because of age.

The grieving, she knows, never ends, and all that remains is the miracle of love. And she holds onto that miracle as if to save her life.

There is no circumstance that He can't change, no hand dealt to you with which He can't win, and no mistake so bad or sin so great that He can't fully restore you!

There really is no justice in a broken life!

REGARDLESS OF WHY YOU'VE MADE BITTERNESS AND HATRED YOUR BEST FRIENDS, IF YOU CARRY THEM AROUND LONG ENOUGH, THEY WILL EVENTUALLY EAT YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT.

The Holy Spirit is really good at revealing the root issues at the foundation of demonic strongholds.

Unforgiveness imprisons our souls and opens the door to evil spirits in us. In my experience, unforgiveness is the number one reason why Christians are oppressed.

When one dimension of our triune being is sick, it affects our entire being. When we understand this, it makes sense that the Lord works to restore the whole person.

Truth can be told in an instant, forgiveness can be offered spontaneously, but reconciliation is the work of lifetimes and generations.

If we can't face our losses, we can't be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

Healing," said the poet, "is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

It's not about healing the world by making a huge difference. It's about healing the world that touches you, that's around you.

The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.