“When we mistake what we can know for all there is to know, a healthy appreciation of one's ignorance in the face of a mystery like soil fertility gives way to the hubris that we can treat nature as a machine. Once that leap has been made, one input follows another, so that when the synthetic nitrogen fed to plants makes them more attractive to insects and vulnerable to disease, as we have discovered, the farmer turns to chemical pesticides to fix his broken machine.” KnowsWayGivingHas BeensMadeFacesTurnsMistakeMysteryLandIgnoranceBrokenHealthyDiseaseMachinesTreatsPlantAppreciationVulnerableAttractiveSoilFedsLeapChemicalsFarmersInsectsInputHubrisFertilitySyntheticPesticidesNitrogen Author:Michael Pollan
“I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick body. I put the disease of this world and my sick body together.” WorldBodyTogetherCultureLanguagePiecesThis WorldBrokenDiseaseSickDictatorshipGrotesque Author:Kim Hyesoon
“The system is broken. The doctors and the nurses can't do everything. The patients need human attention; the patients themselves need to be addressed, rather than just their disease.” NeedsHumansAttentionBrokenDiseaseDoctorsPatientNurse Author:Colleen Saidman
“When I use the word 'healing', by that I mean that every disease has a physical element that we're very good at handling, but there's always a sense of the violation. 'Why me?' 'Why is my leg broken on the ski trip and not anyone else's?' And I think that medicine has done a terrible job of addressing that spiritual violation.” ThinkingMeanDoneUseJobsSpiritualHealingBrokenTerribleDiseaseElementsMedicineVery GoodLegsViolationSkisWhy Me Author:Abraham Verghese
“A broken heart is such a shabby thing, like poverty and failure and the incurable diseases which are also deforming. I hate it and am ashamed of it, and I must somehow repair this heart and put it back into its normal condition, as a tough somewhat scarred but operating organ.” HeartHatePovertyConditionsBrokenDiseaseNormalToughI HateAshamedBroken HeartOrgansBroken HeartedShabbyIncurable Disease Book:The letters of Martha Gellhorn Source: The letters of Martha Gellhorn
“We modern people think of miracles as the suspension of the natural order, but Jesus meant them to be the restoration of the natural order. The Bible tells us that God did not originally make the world to have disease, hunger, and death in it. Jesus has come to redeem where it is wrong and heal the world where it is broken. His miracles are not just proofs that he has power but also wonderful foretastes of what he is going to do with that power. Jesus' miracles are not just a challenge to our minds, but a promise to our hearts, that the world we all want is coming.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantMindHeartOrderJesusNaturalChallengesWonderfulModernBrokenPromiseDiseaseMiracleHungerProofHealRestorationSuspensionNatural OrderHeal The World Author:Timothy Keller
“If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community.” IfsHomeSchoolFormCommunityHealingPovertyViolenceFailingBrokenDiseaseTreatsHealIsolationUnemploymentSymptomsEnding PovertyBroken Homes Author:Barack Obama