Quotes about Healing

Victimization is about powerlessness, and justice is about amplifying the voices of those who have been silenced. Healing

Augustine said, "The church is a whore, but she's our mother." The early Christians said that if we do not accept the church as our mother, we cannot call God our Father. We are not to leave her, but we are to work for her healing, as we would with a dysfunctional parent. Our work is not "para-church" but "pro-church." The church needs our discontent, and we need the rest of the body of Christ.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

If you find yourself right now in a place where you are heartbroken, I want to remind you that Christ is very close to the broken. Our culture throws broken things away, but our Savior never does. He gently gathers all the pieces, and with His love and in His time, He puts us back together.

Christ knows all that is true about our story, the parts we own and the parts we would delete, and He invites us to bring them all into the spotlight of His grace.

Jesus never encouraged His friends to cover over the pain in their lives, but to bring it into the light, where healing is found. Sometimes we don't do that because we fear being rejected by others. Yes, rejection may well happen, but bringing the pain to the light is still the best way to live. It will take much courage, but it will bring freedom.

As long as I viewed someone as the enemy, I gave that person some power over my life. But as I forgave a person, I too was free.

We all need a place where we can give voice to the worst that torments our souls and still be held.

Time will cure you, but now is your grief still young.

Whatever is making you so angry, it's time for you to give it to God and get over it.

People don't need Christians to act like we always have it together. People need us to be real! What kind of healing would come if we all just got real before God and others?

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.