Quotes about Healing

The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

If one could only get out of a grief as one gets out of a city!

This is the shade of difference: the door of the physician should never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

True, I tore the drapery from the altar; but it was to dress the wounds of the country.

This is the shade of difference: the door of physicianshould never be shut, the door of the priest should always be open.

Breaking the gloomy bonds of the past is a mournful task.

Since we are [Christ's] body, we too are the bread that is broken for others. Our failures help heal other lives; our very tears help wipe away tears; our being hated helps those we love.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Love frees us to embrace all of our history, the history in which all things are being made new.

So, when you have that experienced knowledge you lose the ability to hurt people and you also lose the ability to be hurt by people. That's love.

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.