Quotes about Recovery

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

The Broken Vessel Have you ever been scorched by the hot words of Jesus? Has He ever spoken something so deep into your heart that you were cut to the very core of your being? I think this is exactly what happened to John in the passage below. I believe he was pierced by God in his fleshly strength, never to recover. When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned and rebuked them. Luke 9:54—55

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...

When it comes to addictions, we tend to divide humanity into two groups: those who are prone toward addictions and those who aren't. The reality, of course, is very different. All human beings have already fallen into sin.

If addictions are really as prevalent as they seem, we would think that Scripture would be preoccupied with this struggle. And it is.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.