A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
A person's wound is where their passion is born.
Strife and Confusion joined the fight, along with cruel Death, who seized one wounded man while still alive and then another man without a wound, while pulling the feet of one more corpse out from the fight. The clothes Death wore around her shoulders were dyed red with human blood.
How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.
Once you uncover the history of this pattern and trace its roots, you will see that your reaction in the present moment is really a reaction from the past, a shadow character's attempt to protect you from reexperiencing an old emotional wound, which instead sabotages you in the present.
God who sends the wound sends the medicine.
As many as the shells that are on the shore, so many are the pains of love; the darts that wound are steeped in much poison.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
His fine wit Makes such a wound, the knife is lost in it.
But a wound unfelt is a wound unhealed.
One learns better than to hand one's choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.
President Obama promised to usher in a new era of civility in our political discourse. We should make sure that, quote, "talk to each other in ways that heal, not in ways that wound," close quote.
We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound.
Never wound a snake; kill it.
I wound up getting a lot of other opportunities in the nineties, and then sort of as quickly as it started, it just as quickly ended around 2001. And so yeah, I'd love to continue acting but it's just not up to me.
The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.
There really still is a deep wound, you know, in the collective psyche of Pakistan. And the violence has left enormous human and emotional and psychic damage. That's not going to go away. But that said, I think I'm cautiously optimistic that we're looking at a better future.
Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.