Quotes about Hurting

Nurture, love, and motivate hurting people. But pour yourself into the people who will grow and make a difference.

I began to wonder if what we were doing it evangelical circles had more to do with redeeming ourselves to culture than it did with showing Jesus to a hurting world, a world literally filled with outcasts.

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.

The best way to cooperate with God's healing work in your soul is to go find other people who are hurting and be a blessing to them.

Before us lie two paths—honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy.

Some use the label toxic much too broadly as an excuse to avoid difficult, different, or hurting people.

If we truly love Christ, we will want to please and honor Him by the way we live. Even the thought of hurting Him or bringing disgrace to His name will be abhorrent to us.

It is much easier to trust in the sovereignty of God when it is the other person who is hurting. We need to be like Jesus, of whom it was said, "A bruised reed he will not break" (Matthew 12:20). Let us not be guilty of breaking a bruised reed (a heavy heart) by insensitive treatment of the heavy doctrine of the sovereignty of God.

Intimacy with God is that I can come in with the honesty of my heart, tell Him how much I'm hurting.

The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.

At times we feel we are being mean if we confront people who have problems, when in reality "tough love" is what Jesus often used to set people free. Although Jesus had compassion for hurting people, He never merely felt sorry for them.