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    Mitch Hedberg
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    Luke 15:20, Isaiah 61:1, James 5:16, 1 Corinthians 6:12, Galatians 6:1-2, Romans 7:19-20, Psalm 34:18
    Alcoholism is the only disease that you can get yelled at for having.

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    Mother Teresa
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    One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

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    Terry Tempest Williams
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    Job 1:13-22, Genesis 45:4-8, Ruth 1:16-17 , Mark 5:21-43, John 11:1-44 , Psalm 34:18
    An individual doesn’t get cancer, a family does.

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    Maya Angelou
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    Genesis 4:6-7, Exodus 32:19-20, Job 5:2, Ephesians 4:26-27, Hebrews 12:15, Psalm 37:8
    Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

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    James Nestor
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    Genesis 2:7, Isaiah 42:5, Job 27:3, Psalm 104:29-30, Acts 17:25, John 20:22
    To get a sense of how breathing is regarded by modern medical professionals, think back to your last check-up. Chances are your doctor took your blood pressure, pulse, and temperature, then placed a s...

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    Susan Sontag
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    2 Kings 20:1-7 , Job 2:1-10 , Numbers 21:4-9 , Mark 5:25-34, John 9:1-7, Psalm 103:2-4
    Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

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    Richard Rohr
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    The greatest dis-ease facing humanity right now is our profound and painful sense of disconnection.

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    Mother Teresa
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    The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and...

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    Vivek Murthy
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    During my years caring for patients, the most common pathology I saw was not heart disease or diabetes; it was loneliness.

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    James H. Aughey
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    James 5:15, Exodus 15:26, 1 Peter 2:24, Luke 4:18, Matthew 9:12, Isaiah 53:5
    Christ is the Good Physician. There is no disease He cannot heal; no sin He cannot remove; no trouble He cannot help. He is the Balm of Gilead, the Great Physician who has never yet failed to heal all...

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    Billy Graham
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    Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we a...

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    George Eliot
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    There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can’t isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended wit...

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    Unknown
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    If stress happens too often or lasts too long, it can have bad effects. It can be linked to headaches, an upset stomach, back pain, and trouble sleeping. It can weaken your immune system, making it ha...

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    Phillip Yancey
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    The leading causes of death are self-inflicted — side effects of tobacco, obesity, alcohol, sexually transmitted disease, drugs, and violence. We need a transformation. We need the kind of personal an...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    In the cross there is a cure for every spiritual disease. There is food for every spiritual virtue in the Savior. We never go to him too often.

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    Harvard Business Review
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    The American Psychological Association’s 2010 Stress in America survey finds that three-quarters of Americans experience stress at levels that increase their risk of developing chronic illnesses, incl...

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    Rick Warren
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    Proverbs 14:30, Exodus 16:2-8 , 2 Chronicles 32:7-8, Matthew 6:25-27, Ephesians 4:31-32, Psalm 34:8-14
    It’s not just what you eat that matters, it’s what eats you. You can have all the right macrobiotics and organic food, but if your body is filled with resentment, worry, fear, lust, guilt, anger, bitt...

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    J. Todd Billings
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    1 Corinthians 15:54-55, Daniel 12:1-26
    In the testimony of Daniel and the apostle Paul, it is not just “premature death” but death itself—as that which would limit the life God shares with his people—that will be defeated. It is the final ...

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    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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    “What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

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    Timothy Keller
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    Christ's miracles were not the suspension of the natural order but the restoration of the natural order. They were a reminder of what once was prior to the fall and a preview of what will eventual...

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    David Foster Wallace
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    “The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.”

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accidents, like a toothache or a twisted ankle. That these brutal forces always besiege and often capt...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    The worst evils of life are those which do not exist except in our imagination. If we had no troubles but real troubles, we should not have a tenth part of our present sorrows. We feel a thousand deat...

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    Bill Gates
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    I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations ...

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Pity is one of the noblest emotions available to human beings; self-pity is possibly the most ignoble . . . . [It] is an incapacity, a crippling emotional disease that severely distorts our perception...

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    Wendell Berry
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    The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrector, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, death into life. Withou...

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    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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    35.3 percent of Americans reported that they typically got less than seven hours of sleep daily.

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    Caroline Leaf
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    Population studies indicate that something is going terribly wrong: people ages twenty-four to sixty-five are dying eight to fifteen years younger than previous generations from preventable lifestyle ...

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    John Blanchard
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    Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, ...

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    Guy de Maupassant
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    “A sick thought can devour the body's flesh more than fever or consumption.”
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