Heal Us Quotes

#1. The people who need us the most are drawn to us, no matter how we try to outrun them. They find us and eventually they heal us, no matter how resistant we are.

S.E. Jakes

#2. Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.

Arundhati Roy

#3. They love us, heal us, teach us, make us laugh and sometimes break our hearts with their passing.

Jack Canfield

#4. The longer we hate, the harder it is to heal us.

Lewis B. Smedes

#5. Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1

Francine Rivers

#6. Tears are God's gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.

Rita Schiano

#7. People and things don't stop our pain or heal us. In recovery, we learn that this is our job, and we can do it by using our resources: ourselves, our Higher Power, our support systems, and our recovery program.

Melody Beattie

#8. The places in our personality where we tend to deviate from love are not out faults, but our wounds. God doesn't want to punish us, but to heal us. And that is how He wishes us to view the wounds in other people.

Marianne Williamson

#9. We all have angels guiding us ... They look after us. They heal us, touch us, comfort us with invisible warm hands ... What will bring their help? Asking. Giving thanks.

Sophy Burnham

#10. I never imagined that divorce would be part of my life history or my family's legacy. When people say that divorce can be more painful than death, I understand why. But like any great trial, God uses everything for good, if we allow Him to heal us.

Kristin Armstrong

#11. Let us desire that not our wills, but His will, be done.74 If we have not progressed as far as this, then, as I have said, let us practise humility, which is the ointment for our wounds; if we are truly humble, God, the Physician,75 will come in due course, even though He tarry, to heal us.

Teresa Of Avila

#12. Our passions don't just compel us; they can also heal us.

Diane Guerrero

#13. It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.

Bryonie Wise

#14. Jesus suffered deeply because He loves us deeply! He wants us to repent and be converted so that He can fully heal us.

Russell M. Nelson

#15. Love is not the hurt from the past. Love is today. Love is patient enough to wait for the future to heal us.

C.H. Carter

#16. We long for things that harm us and run from the things that grow and heal us. We think good is bad and bad is good.

Tessa Afshar

#17. Your touch has still its ancient power, No word from You can fruitless fall; Hear, in this solemn evening hour, And in Your mercy heal us all.

Henry Twells

#18. We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.

John Eldredge

#19. The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships.

Sharon Salzberg

#20. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

Marianne Williamson

#21. But where could I find such pleasure in you, Lord - except in you, who teaches us by sorrow, who wound us to heal us, and kill us so that we may not die apart from you.

Augustine Of Hippo

#22. Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

John Bunyan

#23. God does not always heal us instantly the way we think. He is not a jack-in-the-box God. But God is walking with me through this.

Thelma Wells

#24. Stories heal us because we become whole through them. In the process of writing, of discovering our story, we restore those parts of ourselves that have been scattered, hidden, suppressed, denied, distorted, forbidden, and we come to understand that stories heal.

Deena Metzger

#25. Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.

Elisabeth Elliot

#26. To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

William Cowper

#27. The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

Gregg Braden

#28. It is by the Lord's stripes that we are healed, and it is through our own stripes that we, too, are given the authority for healing. In the place where the enemy wounds us, once we are healed, we are given the power to heal others.

Rick Joyner

#29. When things in your life do not make sense, keep on praying. Ask God what He wants you to do, and let Him heal you on the inside. He understands that you and I are not perfect. We are works in progress, but we should let Him work within us.

Nick Vujicic

#30. It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#31. Vulnerability gives us freedom, power and connects us to a network of injured souls. It is through the art of being real that we can heal ourself and others.

Shannon L. Alder

#32. Black trauma is never given space to heal because we have to make sure the white people who hurt us don't feel too bad about it. Even as victims, we're told to care about the feelings of those who harm us.

Luvvie Ajayi

#33. Love can heal. Love can renew. Love can make us safe. Love can inspire us with its power. Love can bring us closer to God.

Deepak Chopra

#34. Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us."
That was all.
And that was everything.

Jack Canfield

#35. I knew it wasn't Jess. I love that girl, but I knew it wasn't Jess. I even told Jess that one day the right girl would come along and you'd know. She'd rock your world. That she would heal you. Fix what they did to us.

Abbi Glines

#36. The pain I'm feeling now will fade, too. One day and soon. It has to. For us to keep on living, loving, being who we are, we have to forget how badly the worst parts hurt us. We have to heal. We

Valerie Geary

#37. They say nerves heal real slowly. Lots of things about us heal real slowly.

Buck Brannaman

#38. We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

Nelson Mandela

#39. One of the most paralyzing mistakes we make is thinking that our problems somehow disqualify us from being used by God. Let me just say it like it is: If you don't have any problems, you don't have any potential. Here's why. Your ability to help others heal is limited to where you've been wounded.

Mark Batterson

#40. We know well and we know chronically ill, but there is a whole bunch of gray in between where I think we can heal people before they become chronically sick. I believe our thoughts make us sick.

Marie Osmond

#41. Kindness is the power that moves us to support and heal someone who offers nothing in return.

Lewis B. Smedes

#42. Scars remind us we can live life without fear because no matter what happens, we'll heal. We'll get better.

Lindsey Fairleigh

#43. The men in the nearby village fear us, thinking we are witches. Women who live without men - especially old women who grow herbs, heal the sick, and befriend wild animals - are always suspect.

Pat Murphy

#44. Nature does not abandon us. Rather, it helps us in accepting our loss, grief and pain. It stays with us, even cries with us. It gifts us openings, may be more than once, to heal, transcend and re-emerge. (Page xii)

Neena Verma

#45. To heal, it seems we have to stand in the middle of the horror, at the foot of the cross, and wait out another's suffering where that person can see us. To be honest, that sucks. It's the worst, even if you are the mother of God.

Anne Lamott

#46. We need rituals for all traumas and loss, whether it is betrayal or infidelity or violence or murder. Ritual helps us heal, and ritual helped me heal and become ready to consider the person who murdered Angela, his story, his pain.

Desmond Tutu

#47. Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes.

Judith Orloff

#48. There is power in nature,' Ilgast replied, 'and what is often forgotten is that nature lies within us as much as it does out there, amidst high grasses or shoreline. To heal is to draw across the divide; that and nothing more.

Steven Erikson

#49. I admire people who re-create themselves. And it seems to me that what gives us all the opportunity to be heroic in our own lives is that we work to heal ourselves and be better than we were yesterday.

Robert Crais

#50. Let us green the earth, restore the earth, heal the earth ...

Ian McHarg

#51. One day is not enough to green our earth. Planting caring and love is also expecting our earth from us. Do it, It will heal not only the land but also your body and mind.

Karthikeyan V

#52. You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass destruction on this kind of a level, because ultimately if we are to survive as a species, we have to become a human race for whom the thought of war is unthinkable.

Marianne Williamson

#53. Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

Adam Hamilton

#54. Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#55. Let us try to heal the mind first before we heal the body.

Debasish Mridha

#56. Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.

Iyanla Vanzant

#57. For me, what I try to heal is the major thing that I think all of us go through, where we came from. From our family of origin.

Giancarlo Esposito

#58. Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

Larry Harvey

#59. God makes us with the exact ingredients we need for life. Unfortunately we spoil the mix by throwing in extras that damage the final outcome. God takes the rest of our lives trying to heal and restore us back to His perfect cake mix.

Margaret Kazmierczak

#60. They will heal anyway, with time. We ... are strong. It takes more ... to conquer us.Scars don't matter, little one. They are the marks of the battles we have won.

Helen Dunmore

#61. Our silence about grief serves no one. We can't heal if we can't grieve; we can't forgive if we can't grieve. We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.

Brene Brown

#62. Another reason for the primacy of praise is that it has such power to heal what is wrong with us and create inner spiritual health.

Timothy J. Keller

#63. But neither milk-white rose nor red
May bloom in prison air;
The shard, the pebble, and the flint,
Are what they give us there:
For flowers have been known to heal
A common man's despair.

Oscar Wilde

#64. I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us.

Bernie Siegel

#65. God asked us to cast out demons, heal the sick, cleanse lepers but we cast out the sick, raise d demons, cleanse d dead...

Ikechukwu Joseph

#66. Seriously. A man categorically devised the high heal and he did it in an attempt to make it easier for you dudes to rugby tackle us womenfolk to the ground and haul us back to your beds.

Jodi Ellen Malpas

#67. We all have the dark, ignorant shadow inside us. I have worked endlessly to reveal it and heal it in me, but of course there's some primitive weird stuff in me. The Tea Party is about exhorting white supremacy, though, so I've had a tiny bit of trouble experiencing sympathy.

Anne Lamott

#68. Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

Jonathan Nolan

#69. The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.

Carla L. Rueckert

#70. Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.
Colors can be used to heal, restore and to uplift us.

Jacqueline Ripstein

#71. Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.

Bell Hooks

#72. We are Heavenly Father's children. He wants to be a part of our lives, to bless us, and to help us. He will heal our wounds, dry our tears, and help us along our path to return to His presence. As we look to Him, He will lead us.

Carl B. Cook

#73. I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

Natasha Tsakos

#74. If love is what injures us, how can we heal?

Sue Grafton

#75. Loving someone isn't about fairy tales or control. None of us walk through the world unwounded. Love is simply giving someone a safe space to grow and heal, and that's how we have to love ourselves as well.

James Avery Fuchs

#76. We're all on the journey of a lifetime. God is our shepherd, and we have only to do what He asks of us. Kindness for one another, love for each other, that is what will change the world. Medicine can heal the body. But only God can make well the human soul.

Lurlene McDaniel

#77. It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

Michael Jackson

#78. Beyond reasonable doubt, the each of us possesses unique gifts, amazing abilities to help heal the world if we so choose.

D. Allen Miller

#79. It is INCONSISTENT to have Jesus pay a price for healing and for us to believe it is not Gods intention to heal.

Bill Johnson

#80. Science tells us how to heal and how to kill; it reduces the death rate in retail and then kills us wholesale in war; but only wisdom - desire coordinated in the light of all experience - can tell us when to heal and when to kill.

Will Durant

#81. sorrow or a wound can heal, allowing us to grow into our fullest, most compassionate identity, our greatness of heart. When we truly come to terms with sorrow, a great and unshakable joy is born in our heart. HEALING

Jack Kornfield

#82. I remember what Anna called the three of us.
The Pilot. The Poet. The Physic.
They are in all of us. I believe this. They every person might have a way to fly, a line of poetry to put down for others to see, a hand to heal.

Ally Condie

#83. Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#84. Christ lives and will cleanse, heal, guide, protect and strengthen us.

David A. Bednar

#85. When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Michael Bridges

#86. Our code is different from the warrior code. It reaches across boundaries. To us, every cat is simply that - a cat, with the same right to life as any other. We made a promise to heal and protect, remember?

Erin Hunter

#87. We need the Word of God to set us free. We need biblical wisdom to set us straight. What we need is the Great Physician to heal our overscheduled souls.

Kevin DeYoung

#88. People can help us heal, can give us medicine, advice, many forms of help, but nobody can manage our minds for us.

Lee Lozowick

#89. He means to rename us
to return us to our true names, our truest selves. He means to heal our soul holes. From the very beginning, that Eden beginning, that has always been and always is, to this day, His secret purpose
our return to 'our full glory'.

Ann Voskamp

#90. And we can seek therapy or religion to provide us relief like balm on chafed skin, but that's denying our own power to heal ourselves and trying to silence old pain with new opiates.

Kevin Hearne

#91. Giving the emotion a name is the way we come to understand how what happened affected us. After we've told the facts of what happened, we must face our feelings. We are each hurt in our own unique ways, and when we give voice to this pain, we begin to heal it.

Desmond Tutu

#92. There are many streams of cleansing-beginning with the Blood of Jesus! I want us to study and experience them all, as God works among us to free, heal, and mature His people!

Jack W. Hayford

#93. I think being jilted is one of life's most painful experiences. It takes a long time to heal a broken heart. It's happened to all of us and never gets any easier. I understand, however, that playing one of my albums can help.

Frank Sinatra

#94. The gift of water, air, soap, and time allows us to heal and relieve our psyche and soul.

Byllye Avery

#95. The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#96. Opportunities to share love and compassion are all around us. Its going to take an army of compassionate people to heal our world. How will you show yours?

Renae A. Sauter

#97. Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our sight and burn our skins to such an extent that we could not survive. The smallest bit placed on one's arm would produce a blister which it would need months to heal.

William Crookes

#98. Give us the strength and the will to lead ourselves and our children past the darkness we have entered. Teach us to heal ourselves, to heal each other, and to heal the world.

Kallypso Masters

#99. Wounds heal and become scars, but scars grow with us.

Joseph Stanislaw

#100. The Overhead bears the most powerful Healers in Heaven," Mother began softly. "The Healers - or Guardian Angels, as we were once known as - are given the most power from the sun. Our powers to heal others come from the light and good of the earth - it is what enables us to wake in the morning.

Barbara C. Doyle