Quotes about Hurt

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but words do more damage than most people can imagine. Especially name-calling. 'You're dangerous!' 'Deceived.' 'A false prophet.' 'A compromiser!' Charges like these by young-earth leaders, both spoken and implied, are intended to discredit, maim, and crush old-earth advocates, including me.

Do people regularly feel bruised in their relationship with you?

If you choose to face conflict head on, it is full of risks and the potential for great hurt, but it can also be redemptive.

An offended heart is the breeding ground of deception.

We do have an invitation to be a part of it, but if we refuse we only hurt ourselves.

Anger does a man more hurt than that which made him angry.

New grief, when it came, you could feel filling the air. It took up all the room there was. The place itself, the whole place, became a reminder of the absence of the hurt or the dead or the missing one. I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure. "What can't be helped must be endured," Mat Feltner said. And he was a man who knew.

you are not thinking of finitude you are contemplating an apotheosis in which a temporary state of mind will become symmetrical above the flesh and aware both of itself and of the flesh it will not quite discard you will not even be dead and I temporary and he you cannot bear to think that someday it will no longer hurt you like this

As burned as I've been by local churches and by people who call themselves in God's name, Jesus gave us the church. It's supposed to be a community of like-minded people who encourage and strengthen each other. But that's not how it always works.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Love sometimes injures. Friendship always benefits