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    Ambrose of Milan
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    Matthew 6:14-15, Proverbs 20:22, Colossians 3:12-13, Romans 12:19, 1 Peter 3:9, Ephesians 4:31-32, Matthew 5:44
    No one heals himself by wounding another.

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    Christine Langley-Obaugh
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    Jeremiah 31:19, Colossians 3:13, Matthew 5:23-24, Isaiah 1:18, Proverbs 28:13, James 5:16
    We repeat what we don’t repair.

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    Alexandre Dumas
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    Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? D...

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    Pope Francis
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    Romans 12:13, Proverbs 19:17, Isaiah 58:10, Galatians 6:2, 1 John 3:17-18, James 2:15-17
    Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

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    George Carlin
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    People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next "horrifying" event. People forget there is s...

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    Ovid
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    2 Timothy 2:3-4, Psalm 18:32-34, Philippians 4:13, Romans 8:37, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Galatians 6:9
    The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

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    Shaun Hamill
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    Living with a family wounded by a loss you can't remember is like sitting behind a tall person at a movie theater. The people around you are laughing, crying, reacting to something, but you have n...

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    Brennan Manning
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    2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Psalm 34:18, Ephesians 5:13, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:2
    In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light fo...

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    Rick Warren
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    Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts."

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    A. W. Tozer
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    All great Christians have been wounded souls.

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    Richard Plass and James Cofield
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    Hebrews 4:15-16, James 5:16, Matthew 11:28-30, Psalm 147:3, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:18
    What often continues to shape our stories (interpretations) are the implicit emotional responses to our wounds. We must be willing to attend to our wounds and address the emotions embedded in our woun...

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    John Eldredge
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    Isaiah 61:1, Revelation 21:4, Jeremiah 31:9, Psalm 6:6, James 5:16, Matthew 5:4
    A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Philippians 3:13-14, Romans 12:18, Colossians 3:13, James 5:16, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Psalm 147:3
    Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

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    Brennan Manning
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    In Love's service, only wounded soldiers can serve.”

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    Frederick Buechner
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    Genesis 27:41, Exodus 15:23-25 , Job 10:1, Ephesians 4:31 , Hebrews 12:15 , Psalm 73:21-22
    To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you...

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    Groucho Marx
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    Time wounds all heels.

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    Alia Joy
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    We often become offensive to respectable types when we enter into other people’s suffering and brokenness, or divulge our own.

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    Francis Bacon
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    A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    The desire for harming, the cruelty of revenge, the restless and implacable mind, the savageness of revolting, the lust for dominating, and similar things – these are what are justly blamed in wars. O...

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    Lewis Smedes
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    Colossians 3:13, Ephesians 4:31-32, Luke 6:37, Mark 11:25, James 5:16
    We forgive persons, not institutions. We forgive persons for what not for what they are. We forgive persons for what they do to seriously wound us. We forgive persons for what they do to wrong us when...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Ephesians 4:31-32, Colossians 3:15, Proverbs 15:1, James 3:18, 1 Peter 3:9, Isaiah 2:4, Matthew 5:9
    Non-violence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and enobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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    Publilius Syrus
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    Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

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    Francis Bacon
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    Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

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    Marshall B. Rosenberg
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    All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished.

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    John Bunyan
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    Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there is no saving... Where there is grafting there wi...

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    Ayishat Akanbi
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    James 5:16, Psalm 147:3, Philippians 4:6-7, Proverbs 19:11, Colossians 3:13
    If you’ve decided your healing is dependent on other people acknowledging their faults you’ll still be waiting in your grave.

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    Henri J. M. Nouwen
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    As we feel the pain of our own losses, our grieving hearts open our inner eye to a world in which losses are suffered far beyond our own little world of family, friends, and colleagues. It is the worl...

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    Chaim Potok
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    "One learns of the pain of others by suffering own’s own pain, my father would say, by turning inside oneself, by finding one’s own soul. And it is important to know of pain, he said."

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    Anthony of Egypt
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    Our life and our death is with our neighbor. If we win our brother, we win God. If we cause our brother to stumble, we have sinned against Christ.
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