Wounds Quotes

Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the best.

A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.

War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.

Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

Blame keeps wounds open; only forgiveness heals

It is imperative that preachers of today learn how to declare the spritual law of God; for, until we learn how to wound consciences, we shall have no wounds to bind with Gospel bandages.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

Brave spirits are a balsam to themselves, There is a nobleness of mind that heals Wounds beyond salves.

Their silent wounds have speech More eloquent than men; Their tones can deeper reach Than human voice or pen.

So well thy words become thee as thy wounds.

The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure.

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on the cracked lips.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

Or, in truth, eventually, though I still noticed, the callouses on my spirit prevented wounds (p.75).

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

I am convinced that much more emphasis should be placed on history. The purpose of history is to learn how human beings react when exposed to the danger of wounds or death.

People marry with a deep longing that their partner will tend to their wounds, not throw salt in them. Honor your partner's vulnerability.

I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other's wounds; they repair the broken skin.

Wounds, I think, are never confined to a single skin but reach out to rasp us all.

One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

Praising an honest person who doesn't deserve it, always wounds them.

Mental wounds not healing, who and what's to blame. I'm going off the rails on a crazy train.

Slow and steady wins the race, then wastes no time grinding salt-caked glass in your open wounds.

Clunk all wound up and ready to go!

Listening can heal wounds.

Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

I'm a very humble person. I don't rub salt in people's wounds and I'm genuine.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Be - fight - feel the pain - and love the wounds!

Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose.

Death laid its eggs in the wound

What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.

Your heart is greater than your wounds.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.

Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds

Fencing isn't really fighting. It's more like chess with the risk of puncture wounds

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

Wounds simply won't heal if they are swept under the carpet.

Death hides within every religion. And at any time it can flash forth-not with healing in its wings but with poison, with that which wounds.

Let the sick man enter into the Side of Jesus and His most holy Wounds; let him not be afraid, but combat manfully, and he will come forth victorious.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul.

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again.

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.

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse.