Quotes about Healing

Forgiveness is achingly difficult, and long after you've forgiven, the wound—my dastardly deeds—lives on in memory.

One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.

forgiveness must be taught and practiced, as one would practice any difficult craft.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

Forgiveness, and only forgiveness, can begin the thaw in the guilty party.

Despite a hundred sermons on forgiveness, we do not forgive easily, nor find ourselves easily forgiven.

Forgiveness—undeserved, unearned—can cut the cords and let the oppressive burden of guilt roll away.

Forgiveness, we discover, is always harder than the sermons make it out to be

Forgiveness breaks the cycle of blame and loosens the stranglehold of guilt. It accomplishes these two things through a remarkable linkage, placing the forgiver on the same side as the party who did the wrong.

He who cannot forgive another breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. GEORGE HERBERT

Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.

Forgiveness is an act of faith.