Quotes about Healing

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

We have, it seems, shut the poor out of our minds and driven them from the mainstream of our society. We have allowed the poor to become invisible, and we have become angry when they make their presence felt. But just as nonviolence has exposed the ugliness of racial injustice, we must now find ways to expose and heal the sickness of poverty—not just its symptoms, but its basic causes.

Man is no helpless invalid left in a valley of total depravity until God pulls him out. Man is rather an upstanding human being whose vision has been impaired by the cataracts of sin and whose soul has been weakened by the virus of pride, but there is sufficient vision left for him to lift his eyes unto the hills, and there remains enough of God's image for him to turn his weak and sin-battered life toward the Great Physician, the curer of the ravages of sin.

He explains how all African Americans involved in our own liberation struggle came to embody the dignity of moral conviction and self-sacrifice. Importantly, he explains here how the way of nonviolence heals the oppressed as well as the oppressor.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love

We were like starving women who come to believe that food will cure all present pains, as well as heal all the deficiency sores of long standing.

...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.

It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry.

The bigger the victory, the bigger the battle. Still, be the light and a change agent for healing, restoration and transformation.

In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

Love is the medicine that saves from disease.

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.