Quotes about Sickness

The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

St. Josemaria diagnosed this tendency to overwork as a sickness of the spirit. That was before the word "workaholism" was coined. St. Josemaria called the condition "professionalitis"— suggesting a corruption of something good.

God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.

And, O my God, who madest thyself a light in a bush, in the midst of these brambles and thorns of a sharp sickness, appear unto me so that I may see thee, and know thee to be my God, applying thyself to me, even in these sharp and thorny passages.

Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.

Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Poverty calls us to sow hope.... Poverty is the flesh of the poor Jesus, in that child who is hungry, in the one who is sick, in those unjust social structures.

He pulled the sash down and turned back. Catch my death! he echoed; and he felt like adding: But I've caught it already. I am dead--I've been dead for months and months.

The healthy do not need a doctor, but sick people do. I have not come to coddle the comfortable, but to set trapped people free for a new life." Luke 5:31—32