Quotes about Healing

If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you.

But," you may ask, "how can we forget the unkind things that are said...the cruel and unfair treatment one has received? How can we simply forget these things? It is not as simple as that!" There is just one sure way. Never talk about them, and never think about them. If you want to forget something, never speak even to your dearest friend about it. When it bobs into your mind, banish it at once. It will surprise you how quickly you can forget anything by that treatment.

Our churches are filled with "leaking" Christians who have not treated their emotions as a discipleship issue.

Lewis Smedes sums up the dangers of superficial forgiveness: "We will not take healing action against unfair pain until we own the pain we want to heal. It is not enough to feel pain. We need to appropriate the pain we feel: Be conscious of it, take it on, and take it as our own … I worry about fast forgivers. They tend to forgive quickly in order to avoid their pain.

When we deny our pain, losses, and feelings year after year, we become less and less human.

Few killer viruses are more difficult to discern than this one. On the surface all appears to be healthy and working, but it's not. All those hours and hours spent lost in one Christian book after another . . . all those many Christian responsibilities outside the home or going from one seminar to another . . . all that extra time in prayer and Bible study. . . . At times we use these Christian activities as an unconscious attempt to escape from pain. In

All our families are broken and marred by the effects of the Fall.

Unhealed wounds open us up to habitual sin against God and others.

Using God to run from God Ignoring anger, sadness, and fear Dying to the wrong things Denying the impact of the past on the

the result of denying and minimizing our wounds over many years is that we become less and less human, empty Christian shells with painted smiley faces.

You must let God teach you the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.35

The degree to which you recognize and engage your own shadow is the degree to which you can free others to face theirs.