Quotes About Woundedness

#1. I feel like it's the most boring thing, sitting on the treadmill or on a bike. It just explodes my mind!

Liam Hemsworth

#2. It was ridiculous of her to feel so wounded.

Anne Tyler

#3. Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin.

Pope Francis

#4. In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again.

Peabo Bryson

#5. A deep wound inside him began to heal. And he suddenly knew that being separated from this woman would only bring him a certain sadness.

Catherine DePasquale

#6. The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds ... but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

Henri Nouwen

#7. In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#8. Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

Anne Lamott

#9. Contemplation, sadly, helps you see your woundedness! That's why most people do not stay long with contemplative prayer, because it's not very glorious. It's a continual humiliation, realizing, Oh my God, I did it again. I still don't know how to love!

Richard Rohr

#10. The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

Richard Rohr

#11. Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

Rachel Naomi Remen

#12. 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

#13. Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is creative and critical; it is willing to negotiate awkward and uneven territories of contradiction and woundedness.

John O'Donohue

#14. Nice moves, darlin'." He gripped her hands gently and pried them off his shirt. "You're getting stronger. That almost hurt.

Franca Storm

#15. The depth and complexity and ugliness and danger of sin in professing Christians is either minimized - since we are already justified - or psychologized as a symptom of woundedness rather than corruption.

John Owen

#16. God forgives not with a decree but with a caress. Jesus too goes beyond the law and forgives by caressing the wounds of our sins.

Pope Francis

#17. Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness.

Kathryn V. White

#18. It took us years to get into the mess that we got ourselves in at the end of 2008, and it's going to take a while to get us out. We lost eight million jobs, we saw a financial system near collapse, we have a continuing housing crisis that we're making progress on dealing with.

Robert Gibbs

#19. If we never felt sorrow, we'd never recognize bliss.

Dennis Quaid

#20. God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

Martin Laird

#21. Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Aldous Huxley

#22. Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

Anna Godbersen

#23. Given to air alone, the cuts of this world burn. But when we dare to enter what is deep, the bruises we carry soften and glow. In truth, the more we accept our limitations and surrender to the depths below our woundedness, the more the vastness holds us up. There is no way to know this but to dive.

Mark Nepo

#24. ...everything had changed, and she had crumpled in front of me, and become wholly broken and lost...

Susan Hill

#25. Inspiration is nothing without work.

William Morris Hunt

#26. They know too well the violent hypnosis of those who hope to possess them-- men who can smell the blood on the places where a woman is breaking.

Alana Massey

#27. You can't be deep without a surface

Jonathan Lethem

#28. I am the queen of everything. Every woman is.

Karrine Steffans

#29. I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

Caity Lotz