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Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation QUOTES

Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation QUOTES

1 " Hope refuses to believe that the inevitable is so. What has always been and can’t change is an illusion; if anything is true, it is that change is inevitable, not that the inevitable will not change. But evil caustically replies, Nonsense. It is what it is. You will only be more discouraged and frustrated until you accept reality. "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

2 " How do we hold the paradox of giving up our life in order to find it? I believe Chesterton is saying that the more we open our heart to both heartache and hope, the more we can look death in the face and say, “Where is your sting?” (1 Cor. 15:55). We must love all that bears the mark of life: the sound of an owl finch and its call that sounds like the meowing of a kitten. We must love Bach, Ethiopian berbere, and the smell of freshly baked bread. Life is teeming with goodness. We must also experience death and powerlessness, but darkness will not win. Life and love will have the final word. "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

3 " tendency "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

4 " instead, "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

5 " stands "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation

6 " Grief is freeing, but regret is the cul de sac of despair. "

― Dan B. Allender , Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation