Quotes about Health

God's definition of going well is unique, distinct, almost eccentric. His definition of wellness is not about health, finances, or job security. It's not about unfailing protection from the vagaries and dangers of a broken world. It's not about life being fair. It's about acceptance.

As long as quick numerical growth remains the primary indicator of church health, the truth will be compromised. Instead, churches must once again begin measuring success not in terms of numbers but in terms of fidelity to the Scriptures.

But if you establish the priority of the Word, then you have in place the single most important aspect of the church's life, and growing health is virtually assured because God has decided to act by his Spirit through his Word.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.

Future medicine will be the medicine of frequencies.

Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their talents, scars their health, strains an already overburdened Social Security system, and drives many elderly people into poverty and despair. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

The secret to staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

All diseases run into one, old age.

None of us are entirely well, and none of us are irrecoverably sick.

Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body.