Quotes about Healing

And so I learned about grief, and about the absence and emptiness that for a long time make grief unforgettable.

But grief and griever alike endure.

And so our reclamation project has been, for me, less a matter of idealism or morality than a kind of self-preservation. A destructive history, once it is understood as such, is a nearly insupportable burden. Understanding it is a disease of understanding, depleting the sense of efficacy and paralyzing effort, unless it finds healing work." Excerpt From The World-Ending Fire Wendell Berry This material may be protected by copyright.

The healing that is ours and nature's will come if we are willing, if we are patient, if we know the way, if we will do the work.

Though we invite, this healing comes in answer to another voice than ours; a strength not ours returns

A grace living here as we live, Move my mind now to that which holds Things as they change. The warmth has come. The doors have opened. Flower and song Embroider ground and air, lead me Beside the healing field that waits

Something to forgive is a purer joy than geometry.

Some of the dumbest things we do are done out of anger and bitterness when someone has wronged us.

Because I don't think God trusts just anybody with so much heartache. The world has not yet seen what God can do with a man who gives both halves of a broken heart to him. And I don't doubt that a man like that can change the world...or at least a little part of it.

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.

If you are called as a missionary—a "sent-out one"—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God's love—a love that never dies—through you.