Quotes about Healing

Soul is more bruisable than flesh, and Juila was wounded in every fiber of her spirit.

It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.

Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.

The first steps out of shame will be the hardest. These are the anti-denial steps in which we will put shame into words. You can't do battle with something nameless, and too often shame eludes accurate identification. So we will search for words that bring shame out into the open, where it can be seen and fought against.

The cure for shame will always be found in how we become connected to God.

A lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.

If addictions are really as prevalent as they seem, we would think that Scripture would be preoccupied with this struggle. And it is.

Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical—that if shame no longer exists, you won't either—the reality is that you will be more you without shame.

If you know you have been forgiven, you will forgive and reconcile with others.

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us now knowing this truth. We are at our best when they give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

The doctor of the future will be oneself.