Quotes about Hurt

In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feel like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to another.

To be cut off by the sword of injured friendship is the most dreadful of all deaths, next to suicide.

The surgery of life hurts. It helps me, though, to know that the surgeon himself, the Wounded Surgeon, has felt every stab of pain and every sorrow.

So many wounds are inflicted almost without thinking, aren't they? We never sin unto ourselves. Sin invariably involves others, usually affecting those who are closest to us.

Hurting people hurt people. And often the one who seems to get "cut" the most is the person lashing out. They nurse their pain, anger, bitterness, frustration, unforgiveness, or resentment until those emotions become their master and they are enslaved to them.

As I look back on my life, it saddens me to acknowledge that some of my most painful wounds were inflicted by religious people — Gods people.

pity parties never result in authentic benefit or blessing; they just enlarge, deepen, and intensify the wound by repeatedly exposing it. At the very least, these kinds of discussions with others will keep you focused on your hurts instead of focused on your Healer.

Don't blame God for the behavior of the people who have wounded you. I understand the desperate desire to run from them, but not from Him.

what does love matter in a world where it's so easy to hurt someone?

If we had no hurt and no sin to speak of, we'd be angels, and angels can't love the way men and women do.

When your father doesn't love you, a stone forms inside of you, hard and sharp enough to pierce through bone.

Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.