What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I’m still sort of an invalid now.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn’t recognize myself.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Sleep is all about recovering. So if you’re not sleeping, you’re not recovering. And if you’re going to break your body down a lot, you better find ways to build it back up. And the only way to do that is get a lot of sleep. So for me, I go to bed at like 8:30, 9:00. As soon as I put my kids to bed. Because I’m up at 5:30 the next day.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

Forgotten is forgiven.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone’s guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

I can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don’t even know that fire is hot.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

A lot of psychological principles and even medical principles, you see them coming around to what the Bible said hundreds of years ago: a merry heart is good like a medicine.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.