Quotes about Healing
Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.
- Philip Yancey
He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT
- Philip Yancey
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
- Philip Yancey
Forgiveness is an act of faith.
- Philip Yancey
involvement with others was the most effective in quelling her pain.
- Philip Yancey
Though wrong does not disappear when I forgive, it loses its grip on me and is taken over by God, who knows what to do. Such a decision involves risk, of course: the risk that God may not deal with the person as I would want.
- Philip Yancey
Lewis Smedes points out, "The first and often the only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness. . . . When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
- Philip Yancey
He had not come primarily to heal the world's cells, but to heal its souls.
- Philip Yancey
The only thing harder than forgiveness is the alternative.
- Philip Yancey