Quotes about Healing

After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of love. I now allow this love to flow to the surface.

Love is the answer to any sort of healing.

Love brings up everything unlike itself.

Our barriers to love are rarely consciously chosen. They are our efforts to protect the places where the heart is bruised.

Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one.

Whatever the capacity for human suffering, the church has a greater capacity for healing and wholeness.

forgiveness in God's time is the only door to healing.

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

To be unforgiving is like to drink poison and wait for someone else to die!!

As we forge deeper into this issue of forgiveness, we must be prepared to open up and discuss things that bother us before they escalate to a crisis level. We must examine our struggles with forgiveness in which there are not overt offenses or blatant betrayals. I'm convinced that seeds of resentment take root in the silent frustrations that never get discussed. Other people cannot read our minds--or our palms!--and that is why we have tongues to speak.

My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well." Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.