Quotes about Sickness
God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
- John Donne
That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.
- John Donne
And, O my God, who madest thyself a light in a bush, in the midst of these brambles and thorns of a sharp sickness, appear unto me so that I may see thee, and know thee to be my God, applying thyself to me, even in these sharp and thorny passages.
- John Donne
Every evil is a sickness of soul, but virtue offers the cause of its health.
- St. Basil
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
- JC Ryle
The more I become decomposed, the more sick and fragile I am, the more I become an artist.
- Vincent Van Gogh
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
- Charles Spurgeon
He pulled the sash down and turned back. Catch my death! he echoed; and he felt like adding: But I've caught it already. I am dead--I've been dead for months and months.
- Edith Wharton
The healthy do not need a doctor, but sick people do. I have not come to coddle the comfortable, but to set trapped people free for a new life." Luke 5:31—32
- Fr. Richard Rohr
There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!
- TB Joshua
The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!
- Francis de Sales
Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
- Teresa of Avila