As the wound inflames the finger, so the thought inflames the mind.
Better a lie that heals than a truth that wounds.
The way to transmute the pain of life is to reveal the wounded side of things, evil, even, and then place the wound inside of sacred space. The Bible is about naming, facing, and then forgiving the wounds of history.
When men feel the wound that cannot heal, they either bury themselves in woman's arms and ask her for healing, which she cannot provide, or they hide themselves in macho pride and enforced loneliness.
Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mist...
A person with a wound on his head keeps touching it.
If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; We must have sight of thorn-pricks on Thy brow, We must have Thee, O Jesus of the Scars. The heavens frighten us; they are too calm; In all the universe we h...
Our society has long treated men as machines, as bodies expendable in the name of progress or profit. Men have overruled their pain and soul's delight, taught to think of themselves as "mechanisms". Such an estrangement wounds very deeply; it has gon...
Do not despise an insignificant enemy, nor a slight wound.
A bad wound may heal, but a bad name will kill.
What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, the...
Better a lie which heals than a truth which wounds.
Old age and poverty are wounds that can't be healed.
You’ve heard the saying “time heals all wounds.” Nothing could be further from the truth. Time won’t heal all wounds. Jesus will. By His wounds, we are healed. That’s what this book is all about. There is a real answer to the why question, ...
The wounded can inflict the most painful wound without hesitation.
Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.
I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.
A wound never heals so well that a scar cannot be seen.
We are all too fixed on wrecking ourselves rather than bettering ourselves.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
We are all wounded. It is in the care of our wounds that we choose to develop character, or scars.
