Quotes about Healing

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

The Psalms wrap nouns and verbs around our pain better than any other book.

My wheelchair was the key to seeing all this happen—especially since God's power always shows up best in weakness. So here I sit … glad that I have not been healed on the outside, but glad that I have been healed on the inside. Healed from my own self-centered wants and wishes.

Find a place where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, For you, GOD, have put my life back together.

Judgment is not the last word; it is never the last word. Judgment is necessary because of centuries of hardheartedness; its proper work is to open our hearts to the reality beyond ourselves, to crack the carapace of self-sufficiency so that we can experience the inrushing grace of the healing, merciful, forgiving God.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

After explaining how a pearl is made she said: "It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and give us our beauty.