Quotes about Healing

Every time a child is saved from the dark side of life, every time one of us makes the effort to make a difference in a child's life, we add light and healing to our own lives.

Your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

Forgiveness is not a one-time thing that happened the day you received Christ. It is an everyday thing, for the rest of your life.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Over the years I've seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.

Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.

I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.

Comedy, if it didn't save my life, certainly gave me a very different life.

I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part of who we are and is buried deep in all of us as a source of wisdom and strength and healing which we can draw upon or, with our terrible freedom, not draw upon as we choose. I think that among other things all real art comes from that deepest self - painting, writing music, dance, all of it that in some way nourishes the spirit.