Quotes about Healing

Do not diminish the wounds you have received because you have heard far worse stories than yours; minimizing the impact of a wound never heals it. Jesus cares about it all.

We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds," declares the LORD, "because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares." (Jer. 30:16—17)

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

You see, whenever we live in relationship, whenever we simply live in proximity to other people, sooner or later we will run up against their issues—the unhealed or unholy parts of their personalities. Just as they will run into ours. Living in community is like a pack of porcupines sharing the same den. We will get stuck.

All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain. If we do not transform our pain, we will transmit it to those around us.

We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.