Quotes about Healing

To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

Sometimes the most whole people are those who come from the most broken circumstances.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

Forgiveness is release — to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free. To not forgive is to chain oneself to people and circumstances of the past. In doing so, our past becomes our future.

Hating those boys didn't do anything to the boys, just to me. So I pushed them and all my hate from my heart. Once I did that, God came back in.

It's like they say, holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Forgiveness is alchemy. To take something so base and ugly that you don't even want to think of it and turn it into something noble and fine. That is true alchemy. Remember that. It's not always easy, but if you can do that, you'll have a happy life.

We are chained to that which we do not forgive

Until we learn to love others as ourselves, it's difficult to blame broken people who desperately try to affirm themselves when no one else will.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain.

The church of Christ is a common hospital, wherein all are in some measure sick of some spiritual disease or other, so all have occasion to exercise the spirit of wisdom and meekness.