Quotes about Healing
forgiveness alone can halt the cycle of blame and pain, breaking the chain of ungrace.
— Philip Yancey
people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them."2
— Philip Yancey
On the other hand, if the subject had nothing to do but think about his pain (as is true in many hospitals and nursing homes), he showed much greater sensitivity.
— Philip Yancey
We sometimes use the term "savior complex" to describe an unhealthy syndrome of obsession over curing others' problems. The true Savior, however, seemed remarkably free of such a complex. He had no compulsion to convert the entire world in his lifetime or to cure people who were not ready to be cured.
— Philip Yancey
Though forgiveness is never easy, and may take generations, what else can break the chains that enslave people to their historical past?
— Philip Yancey
Paul Tillich once defined forgiveness as remembering the past in order that it might be forgotten
— Philip Yancey
The past must be remembered before it can be overcome.
— Philip Yancey
Only forgiveness frees us from the injustice of others.
— Philip Yancey
Ungrace plays like the background static of life for families, nations, and institutions. It is, sadly, our natural human state.
— Philip Yancey
When you forgive someone, you slice away the wrong from the person who did it. You disengage that person from his hurtful act.
— Philip Yancey
for the resulting chasms of ungrace there is only one remedy: the frail rope-bridge of forgiveness
— Philip Yancey
Forgiveness has its own extraordinary power which reaches beyond law and beyond justice.
— Philip Yancey