Quotes about Healing

The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

Laughter was good medicine for the soul, and looking for things to be joyful about had helped Emma through the worst of her grief.

You see, one day God showed me something very important. He let me know that my bitterness and blaming myself for so many things was of my own doing. He showed me that I could shed all my doubts and hurts from the past, God can do that for you too. He wants you to be happy, and if you'll only trust Him, He can work a miracle in your life, just as He did mine.

Jesus] said, "Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners" (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God's heart to men.

Here is invariably a spiritual fact: Our spirit is released according to the degree of our brokenness.

Let me say from conviction that tears are the outlet of the heart.

The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.

When you have gone too far, as I think he did, the only mending is to come home.

As strange as it sounds, broken people are fixed by other broken people. It's God's economy.

Love fills the empty places and flows from what was once the epicenter of the wound. And it's the flowing that washes out the residue of the pain and makes us whole again. That's the crazy miracle that is love. The more you pour out, the more you have to pour.

We're all broken, all walk with a limp. Here is the truth about you and me: even when in a far-off country, wasted life, stripped bare, smeared, squandered, nothing but scar tissue and shameful, self-inflicted wounds, the love of the Father finds the son and daughter.

Love is an amazing thing. It takes the brokenness, the scars, the pain, the darkness, everything, and makes it all new.