Wounds Quotes - Page 18

• Healing begins where the wound was made.

  Alice Walker

  Healing, Black, Made

  Alice Walker (2012). “The Way Forward Is with a Broken Heart”, p.217, Ballantine Books

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• Abuse is always wrong. Some try to excuse it. Most perpetrators have a sense of entitlement, thinking their actions are justified. Ironically, their victims may also believe they deserve to be mistreated. Some will even defend their abuser, citing his or her earnest apologies afterward. But abuse in any form, for any reason, wounds both spouses. It's always sinful, and few things destroy trust in a marriage as quickly. Regardless of childhood pain or marital conflict, mature spouses learn to set limits so anger doesn't become abuse by frequency, degree, or duration.

  Rob Jackson

  Pain, Believe, Apology

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• Forgiving is an affair strictly between a victim and a victimizer. Everyone else should step aside...The worst wounds I ever felt were the ones people gave to my children. Wrong my kids, you wrong me. And my hurt qualifies me to forgive you. But only for the pain you caused me when you wounded them. My children alone are qualified to forgive you for what you did to them.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Hurt, Pain

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• Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Time, Heart

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• Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Rip, Rain, Cutting

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1988). “Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series”, Baker Publishing Group

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• An unacknowledged trauma is like a wound that never heals over and may start to bleed again at any time.

  Alice Miller

  May, Trauma, Heal

  Alice Miller (1998). “Thou Shalt Not Be Aware: Society's Betrayal of the Child”, p.226, Macmillan

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• From now on there is no longer any development immanent to art. The times have passed for history of art with a logical sense. There is no longer even any consistency in absurdities; the development has been wound up, and what comes now already exists: the syncretism of a muddle of all styles and possibilities, post-history.

  Arnold Gehlen

  Art, Consistency, Style

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• Let those only return to their homes who are called by the imperative duties which they owe to their families, and those who by their glorious wounds have deserved the credit of their country.

  Giuseppe Garibaldi

  Country, Home, Credit

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• The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

  John Stott

  Strong, Thrones, Speak

  John Stott (2012). “The Cross of Christ”, p.328, InterVarsity Press

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• Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Pain, Memories, Height

  Ivan Goncharov (2006). “Oblomov: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.214, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Autobiography is a wound where the blood of history does not dry.

  Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

  Blood, Doe, Dry

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• Love heals all wounds and not just time alone.

  Jeff Buckley

  Alone Time, Heal, Me Alone

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• Resistance’s goal is not to wound or disable. Resistance aims to kill

  Steven Pressfield

  Goal, Resistance, Aim

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.15, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• People around the world are confusing the therapeutic value of self-expression with permission to manipulate others with their wounds.

  Caroline Myss

  Self, Expression, People

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Why People Don't Heal and How They Can”, p.7, Harmony

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• We have converted our wounds into a type of relationship currency that we use in order to control situations and people.

  Caroline Myss

  Order, People, Use

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.209, Harmony

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• Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

  Pete Wilson

  God Heals, Heal

  Pete Wilson (2013). “Let Hope in: 4 Choices That Will Change Your Life Forever”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Love songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the love songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine.

  Nick Cave

  Song, Distance, Silence

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• The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage.

  Mark Lowry

  Self, Forgotten, Figs

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• Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

  Og Mandino

  Long, Skins, Vineyards

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World”, p.45, Bantam

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• Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of the heart, and all milk on the other, the unsexed scandal-monger hies from house to house, pouring balm from its weeping eyes on the wounds it inflicts with its stabbing tongue.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Eye, House

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.71

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• Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

  Nick Hornby

  Awkward, Flesh, Threatening

  "High Fidelity". Book by Nick Hornby, 1995.

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• A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like a wound, but they also heal it. That's why my feelings always come in twos.

  Yehuda Amichai

  Airports, Sheep, Feelings

  Yehuda Amichai (2013). “The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai”, p.152, Univ of California Press

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• This is a difficult balance, telling the truth: how much to share, how much to keep, which truths will wound but not ruin, which will cut too deep to heal.

  Ally Condie

  Honesty, Cutting, Balance

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.214, Penguin

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• Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Hands, Long

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• We have made a terrible mistake! For most of this century we have wrongly defined soul wounds as psychological disorders and delegated their treatment to trained specialists. Damaged psyches aren't the problem. The problem is disconnected souls. What we need is connection. What we need is a healing community.

  Larry Crabb

  Mistake, Healing, Psych

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