Quotes about Healing

Jesus touched and healed anybody who desired it and asked for it, and there were no other prerequisites for his healings.

And to be fully honest, I think your heart needs to be broken, and broken open, at least once to have a heart at all or to have a heart for others.

the little boy couldn't feel and admit the pain until he was sufficiently sure that love was there.

You can forgive the outer world only if and when you have first forgiven your own inner world.

We clergy have gotten ourselves into the job of "sin management" instead of sin transformation. "If you are not perfect, then you are doing something wrong," we have taught people. We have blamed the victim, or have had little pity for victims, while daring to worship a victim image of God. Our mistakes are something to be pitied and healed much more than hated, denied, or perfectly avoided. I do not think you should get rid of

Anne Wilson Schaef

Wherever there was human suffering, Jesus was concerned about it now, and about its healing now. It is rather amazing and very sad that we pushed it all off into a future reward system for those who were "worthy"—as if any of us are.

Physicians, though they put their patients to much pain, will not destroy their nature, but will raise it up by degrees. Surgeons will pierce and cut but not mutilate. A mother who has a sick and self-willed child will not cast it away for this reason. And shall there be more mercy in the stream than there is in the spring? Shall we think there is more mercy in ourselves than in God, who plants the feeling of mercy in us?

A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.

Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.

Relationships are always worth restoring.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.