Quotes About Healing

Getting angry because you cannot will yourself to push through it at your old pace will sabotage the pace of healing. Patience gives you the grace to slow down and let your soul catch up in its own time and in its own way.

You are like a baby bird that has fallen out of the nest, too weak and fragile to fly back. You need to learn how to feed yourself soul vitamins so that you can regain your energy and the will to live fully.

You won't find the Five Gifts on anyone's wish list but when your emotional tank is on empty, they will be there to help you replenish your energy.

The three cycles of loss center on our sense of control, safety, and identity.

Our capacity to disregard and discount viscerally painful experiences is so ingrained that we have come to believe that "moving forward" means not allowing ourselves to be moved at all.

It's impossible to predict how the heart heals or how long it is going to take.

Like breaking a leg, a serious injury to the psyche often gets us benched while the regular game of life goes on. It may seem strange that forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

I tried to manipulate and control people and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven but I wouldn't forgive others.

it could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.

Just think of what would have happened to poor old Naaman if he had decided to dunk himself only once?

When we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process. When my husband passed away, I discovered that my relationship with God had been a shallow one at best, and that I had no reservoir of inner strength to draw from.

And bear in mind that forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Plus, we adults have unhealed hurts from our own childhoods, which sometimes get in the way right when our children need our support. Our own piles of old feelings interfere with parenting playfully. In turn, that makes it hard to help children with their emotional difficulties

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

A wrong that cannot be repaired must be transcended.

Hating people who wronged me only kept me in their power. Forgiving them and thanking them for the lessons they taught me, on the other hand set me free to continue on my way.

I don't know how time moves or which of our sorrows or our desires it is able to wash away.

Cats don't forget. Cats know when they are needed and loved. These two would be better medicine for Minnie than anything that came out of a pill bottle.

We ontkenden de fouten van de ander niet. We wonnen hen terug door gebed. We vroegen Christus om met Zijn liefde in ons te komen en door ons heen naar die andere persoon toe te gaan, herinneringen te genezen en alles wat goed en mooi was aan die ander naar boven te laten komen