Quotes About Healing

Unity in the church will not happen if members have unforgiving hearts.

O God my Truth, make me one with You in eternal love. Often I become weary with reading and hearing many things. You are all that I want and desire. Let all teachers be mute and all creation keep silence before You. Speak to me, You, and You alone.

because I am still weak in love and imperfect in virtue, I need to be strengthened and comforted by Thee; therefore visit Thou me often and instruct me with Thy holy ways of discipline. Deliver me from evil passions, and cleanse my heart from all inordinate affections, that, being healed and altogether cleansed within, I may be made ready to love, strong to suffer, steadfast to endure.

Three things make people want to change. One is that they hurt sufficiently.

Prayer is the present remedy for the souls of them that are sick.

Repentance is the vomit of the soul.

The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.

Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3).

68. ?And your Lord inspired the bee, "Make your houses in the mountains, in the trees, and in the buildings they construct: 69. ?"then eat from all the fruits, gently walking the pathways of your Lord." From within them exudes a drink of various colors, in it healing for humankind. Surely in that is a sign for people who reflect.

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

I'm nearly blind. I can hardly see. But I'm taking some herbs. Something quacky.

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

I was stabbed in the neck when I was 15.

For a long time I thought I could deal with my anger and hostility on my own. But I couldn't. I denied that it had affected me, and yet I was so frantic on the inside with other people: I needed to be constantly reassured.

It's so essential to happiness to speak your truth out loud - because this sharing of your core pain is what creates a necessary healing shift - from negative beliefs about the world - to positive beliefs - and frees you up to be able to fully view life with meaning, purpose and connection with others.

I write about people who are usually damaged or neglected by society finding each other and forming relationships that are quite extraordinary and in some cases life-saving. I've had a few of those relationships, which I value highly.

I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

I was so devastated by my second divorce that I had a nervous breakdown.

Sleep is a regenerative process where we heal and where our neurons build strong connections. It's like a fountain of youth that we dive into every night.

It's difficult in your life when both parents pass so quickly and you're not really that old when they move on. There is a big gap in your life. There's a hole. You learn to live with it but never forget it.

When you've lost a baby, everyone around you expects you to be fine once the new baby is born, as though that somehow takes away the pain of losing the first child. I needed to express how wrong that was.

I have a husband and a new life and want to be normal like everyone else.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.