Inspirational Quotes on Illness

“In sickness the soul begins to dress herself for immortality. And first she unties the strings of vanity that made her upper garments cleave to the world and sit uneasy.”

“You can't have healing without sickness.”

“Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.”

“I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.”

“Health is not valued till sickness comes.”

“It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.”

“Sickness is felt, but health not at all.”

“It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them.”

“Why do Christians get sick? 1. Some sickness comes from God. 2.Some sickness comes from Satan. 3.Some sickness is chastening for sin.”

“Are there not many whose spiritual life is endangered by their physical condition-many who fall because of their physical weakness-many who cannot work actively for God because of the bondage of illness?”

“The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.”

“My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.”

“Many saints today are stricken with sickness, weakness and suffering; God is chastening them that they may present their bodies to Him a living sacrifice.”

“Apparitions are, so to speak, shreds and fragments of other worlds, the first beginnings of them. There is, of course, no reason why a healthy man should see them, because a healthy man is mainly a being of this earth, and therefore for completeness and order he must live only this earthly life. But as soon as he falls ill, as soon as the normal earthly state of the organism is disturbed, the possibility of another world begins to appear, and as the illness increases, so do the contacts with the other world, so that at the moment of a man's death he enters fully into that world.”