Quotes about Healing
We should not try to escape from our pain. We should look at it directly. Looking at suffering deeply, we will have deep insight into its nature, and the path of transformation and healing will present itself to us.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Just as we have the tendency to run away from a shot or a dose of medicine, even if it's good for us, we have the tendency to run away from answers that touch painful areas in our lives.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
With understanding and compassion, you will be able to heal the wounds in your heart, and the wounds in the world.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
So many individuals, children, couples, and families have been destroyed by sexual misconduct. To practice the Third Precept is to heal ourselves and heal our society. This is mindful living.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
I'm receiving 300 to 500 letters every week from people telling me that God used my stories to save their marriage or to introduce them to Christ or to heal a relationship that had been broken.
— Karen Kingsbury
Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Hardening can never be broken by man in his own power. There is no other therapy that can bring about a change except the divine healing in Christ and the superior power of the Spirit.
— GC Berkouwer
Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.
— Gary Thomas
If you fail to cherish your wife in the difficult times, the damage done by those difficulties will be twice as bad and take three times as long to heal.
— Gary Thomas
If we learned to float in sorrow rather than thrash about like a drowning emotional victim, We might find that it can be used to set us free.
— Gary Thomas
Chapter 21 teaches us to be less toxic toward ourselves.
— Gary Thomas