Quotes about Wounds
Some wounds broke open and had to be stitched closed with patience and prayer.
— Francine Rivers
Wounds. Broken places. Possibility. Change. Steps toward holiness. Imperfect progress. The hurt in those who hurt me---their underbellies. Grace. Love. Me looking alot more like Jesus than I did before. And to discover through all this seeing---being unglued isn't all that bad.
— Lysa TerKeurst
Just as there are some wounds the greatest physicians cannot heal, so there are wounds of the soul that no human being can heal.
— Madeleine L'Engle
At the very least literature should not preen itself on mocking us and picking at our wounds, as modern writers in our days do ad nauseam. All they can write is satire, irony, parody (including self-parody), vicious sarcasm, all steeped in malice.
— Amos Oz
Many are unable to function properly in their calling because of the wounds and hurts that offenses have caused in their lives. They are handicapped and hindered from fulfilling their full potential. Most often it is a fellow believer who has hurt them.
— John Bevere
All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.
— Andrew Carnegie
Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The significance of Jesus' wounded body is his deliberate and conscious holding of the pain of the world and refusing to send it elsewhere. The wounds were not necessary to convince God that we were loveable; the wounds are to convince us of the path and price of transformation. They are what will happen to you if you face and hold sin in compassion instead of projecting it in hatred.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Almost all people are carrying a great and secret hurt, even when they don't know it.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
On a man's journey, everything has its place. Our failures, heartbreaks, defeats, and victories; our wounds, dreams, and passions; our stops and our starts-all have a place in our story, and all have a place in our transformation from shadow men to real men. Everything has meaning, and everything belongs.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The wounds to our ego are our teachers and must be welcomed. They must be paid attention to, not litigated.
— Fr. Richard Rohr