Quotes about Recovery

When we try to see a damaged person as one of God's regular old customers, instead of a lost cause, it takes the pressure off everybody. We can then loosen our death grip on the person, which usually results in progress for everyone, also known in certain circles as grace.

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

But healing isn't the same as recovery, is it? Healing slides way down in your heart and settles there.

It takes a little time sometimes to get your feet back on the ground.

Slowly but surely, you will learn to behave as you would have wished to behave but were too wounded to know how.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

There's times in my life when music has been an escape, the only thing that worked when everything else seemed broken, but at that moment I had nothing to escape from.

I wanted to recover the kind of faith that has nothing to do with being sure what I believe and everything to do with trusting God to catch me though I am not sure of anything.

Self-compassion is how we recover.

Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.