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Quotes About Wounds

Hurry wounds a questioning soul.
~ Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist
Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The memory of war weighs undiminished upon the people's minds. That is because deeper than material wounds, moral wounds are smarting, inflicted by the so-called peace treaties.
~ Hjalmar Schacht
Some wounds were worth bearing for the healing they brought.
~ Dianna Hardy, Summer's End
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
~ Novalis
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
We look at your eyes. The eyes carry the wounds. The eyes know damage. Damaged people recognize other damaged people, and we let you in. We are kindred. - Broken Places
~ Rachel Thompson
In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.
~ Marianne Williamson
Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.
~ William Chapman
While it is true that Aurangzeb is a more complex and pragmatic figure than some of his critics allow, the religious wounds Aurangzeb opened in India have never entirely healed, and at the time they tore the country in two.
~ William Dalrymple
A man may outlive many wounds received in the arms or legs, but a stab in the heart or other vital parts is the certain messenger of death approaching. Thus righteousness and holiness preserve the principal part of a Christian —his soul and conscience.
~ William Gurnall
I rather doubt he had the sense to see the truth: that there are wounds worse than fatal, which the law's little binary distinctions-guilty/innocent, criminal/victim-cannot fathom, let alone fix. The law is a hammer, not a scalpel.
~ William Landay
If possible, you also want to determine the cause of death (technically, only medical examiners can determine cause of death; we anthropologists call things like stab wounds and gunshots "manner of death"). But
~ William M. Bass
Por mucho que se racionalicen las cosas, siempre es el cuerpo el que decide cuánto tardan en cicatrizar las heridas afectivas.
~ David Foenkinos
It is surprising how we fight against Love's accepting what we do not want to accept in ourselves—our defective, wounded, malicious self. But what a transformation when we can accept this poor self and allow love in!
~ David G. Benner
Our scars are a witness to the world. They are apart of our story. Healed wounds that are symbols that God has restored us.
~ Louie Giglio
You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.
~ Erwin McManus
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
~ William Shakespeare
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.
~ Ann Voskamp
When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.
~ Fernando de Rojas
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
He wounds but he heals.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
~ Dorothea Dix
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
~ Gautama Buddha