Quotes about Healing

Anger and bitterness—whatever the cause—only end up hurting us. Turn that anger over to Christ.

God wants to help you overcome the bitterness and anger that you feel, and He wants to encourage you . . . He knows that anger and depression will never help you deal with your problems—they only make them worse.

When someone hurts us, our natural instinct is to strike back—but when we do, we not only destroy any possibility of reconciliation, but we also allow anger and hate to control us.

If you have been harboring anger or bitterness or jealousy in your heart toward someone—a parent, an ex-spouse, a boss—hand it over to Christ, and ask Him to help you let it go.

Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God's strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.

We get angry when others hurt us, both by what they say and what they do. We get angry when we don't get our own way or our plans and dreams are frustrated. Anger may arise in an instant, erupting like a volcano and raining destruction on everyone in sight. Often, anger simmers just below the surface, sometimes for a lifetime. Like a corrosive acid, this kind of anger eats away at our bodies and souls, yet we may not even be aware of its presence.

Christ . . . didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.

Hope, like faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal.

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

God can help you begin to rebuild your marriage and your life if you will let Him rule in your life.

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

I know of few families today that aren't touched to some extent by the heartache of divorce, including our own.