Quotes about Healing
Once a broken bone heals, it is often strongest at the point of the fracture. In the same way, God can take the shame of past failures and amazingly redirect their outcomes toward your future success.
— Craig Groeschel
But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
— Craig Groeschel
Sticks and stones can bruise your body for a few days, but words can scar your soul for life.
— Craig Groeschel
Oral Roberts's informal estimate of 10 percent healed (Stewart, Only Believe, 58); in the modern faith movement, see Barron, Gospel, 125—36. Van Brenk, "Wagner," 257, cites 29 percent completely healed for Wagner (which would be quite high).
— Craig Keener
I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.
— Beth Moore
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.
— Miroslav Volf
A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.
— Lisa Wingate
I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
— Lisa Wingate
The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.
— Lisa Wingate
I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.
— Lisa Wingate
Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.
— Lisa Wingate
It's those little nicks and dents and imperfections of spirit that allow us to flow out into a thirsty world. It's our scars that allow us to relate to the scars of others, our suffering that connects us to others who suffer.
— Lisa Wingate