Quotes About Healing

A student asked me recently why somebody always dies in my books. I said, because somebody is always dying in my life.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

If . . . My people who are called by My name humble themselves, pray and seek My face, and turn from their evil ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

Once you have seen or heard a miracle of what Jesus has done, it changes the way that you minister. You can never pray from lack again for any condition that you have read or heard about.

Fact is you might be sick, but the truth is that Jesus is your healer. Fact is you might be out of money, but the truth is that Jesus is your provider. Fact is you might feel unlovable, but the truth is that you are dearly loved! Fact is you might have wayward family members, but the truth is that Jesus is your restorer.

If any of this breaks your heart, it was probably already a little broken to begin with.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.

A broken heart doesn't need repaired. Because maybe one of your pieces fits perfectly with someone else's heart.

The saddest thing is a retarded man who is crying and promising a broken egg that it will still be a chicken some day. And that they'll play together in a field when it gets better.

Point is, we hurt each other a lot. And I know it, now. And I'm sorry I hurt you so bad you looked somewhere else.

When the Holy Spirit takes over your life, He'll drive every sickness out of your body; He'll make right everything that was wrong.

You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.

At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.

It's the causes, not the dependent person, that must be corrected. That's why I see the United States' War on Drugs as being fought in an unrealistic manner. This war is focused on fighting drug dealers and the use of drugs here and abroad, when the effort should be primarily aimed at treating and curing that causes that compel people to reach for drugs.

Treatment for dependency at substance abuse treatment centers must change if alcoholism and addiction are to be overcome in our society.

She looked as if she had been mauled by a tiger.

Kleist erinnert sich, daß der Schmerz ihm Geständnisse erpreßt hat, Versuche, den Schmerz zu beschreiben. Das erträgt kein Mensch lange, Doktor. Einmal muß es nachlassen oder mich töten.

Wo ein Messer einmal tief ins Fleisch geschnitten hat, tut die Berührung durch eine Feder weh.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Knowing the seriousness of our disease will make us all the more amazed at the greatness of our Physician.

new mainstream consensus emerged around the idea that the Vietnam War had primarily been an American tragedy that had badly wounded and divided the nation. The focus was on healing, not history.

Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.