Quotes about Healing
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.
- Walter Anderson
It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy.
- Walter Brueggemann
It is the work of the poet to imagine YHWH out beyond old stereotypes and to show us that the God of Israel, at the very moment of risk, is a God of healing, transformative, covenantal fidelity.
- Walter Brueggemann
Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
- Washington Allston
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief and unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
There is a sacredness in tears....They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.
- Washington Irving
Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation. (pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")
- Wendell Berry
I don't believe that grief passes away. It has its time and place forever. More time is added to it; it becomes a story within a story. But grief and griever alike endure.
- Wendell Berry
I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.
- Danny Boyle
Are you in conflict with someone? Maybe you feel you've done everything you can to make things right. But is there anything else you can do? It would please God so much.
- Darlene Zschech
Unforgiveness, bitterness, pride, even disappointment have the ability to rot the bones of man (see Proverbs 14:30).
- Darlene Zschech
Jesus understands the hurt you feel. He experienced denial and betrayal at the deepest level.
- Darlene Zschech