And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.
Interpretation
Forgiveness is essential for healing emotional wounds.
This quote by Corrie Ten Boom highlights the universal nature of hurt and the common pathway to healing through forgiveness. It suggests that regardless of oneβs personal experiences, the act of forgiving those who have caused pain is a crucial step towards emotional recovery and peace.
In practice
During a sermon about healing, one could use this quote to emphasize the importance of forgiveness.
We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in Godβs work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.
And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things too. Don't run out ahead of Him.
If you want to hear God's voice clearly and you are uncertain, then remain in His presence until He changes this uncertainty. Often much can happen during this waiting for the Lord. Sometimes, He changes pride into humility; doubt into faith and peace; sometimes lust into purity. The Lord can and will do it.
Today I know that such memories are the key not to the past, but to the future. I know that the experiences of our lives, when we let God use them, become the mysterious and perfect preparation for the work He will give us to do.
God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART
Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits.
When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.
When you are on a great horse, you have the best seat you will ever have.
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.
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