Quotes about Recovery

if we are to see a new reformation, we will have to break away from these patterns and seek to recover the authentic biblical gospel, learning again to think and act in God's way.

The No. 1 reason women stay in abusive relationships - because they're not able to take care of themselves financially. It's also the No. 1 reason why women go back.

Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

When we pray for grace and use opportunities to the full, this is laying a fig on the boil which will make us recover. To pray for holiness and neglect the means—is like winding up the clock and taking off the weights.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life.

Power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.

Shame usually follows a pattern—a cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we are—not just something we've done, or had done to us—and we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recover—that, in fact, we don't even deserve to.

Instead of her soul swaying with new life, it seemed to droop, to bleed, as if it were wounded.