Old Soul Quotes: Wound

On this Resurrection morning, I’m introducing a new Sunday series, in which I’ll select a word or phrase appropriate to the season and post some quotations about it from the Bible and my favorite “old souls.” Hope you enjoy. A blessed Easter to you all!

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And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends. – Zechariah 13:6

Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. – Charles Spurgeon

The wound is where the light gets in. – singer/songwriter Jason Gray

A not admitting of the wound

by Emily Dickinson

A not admitting of the wound

Until it grew so wide

That all my Life had entered it

And there were troughs beside –

A closing of the simple lid that opened to the sun

Until the tender Carpenter

Perpetual nail it down –

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