Quotes about Recovery

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.

The Broken Vessel Have you ever been scorched by the hot words of Jesus? Has He ever spoken something so deep into your heart that you were cut to the very core of your being? I think this is exactly what happened to John in the passage below. I believe he was pierced by God in his fleshly strength, never to recover. When His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them?" But He turned and rebuked them. Luke 9:54—55

But you'll get it back-you'll get it all back, with your face...