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A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.

  • Medicine is there to restore what can be restored of health so that the person can continue to seek the fullness of life.— Farr Curlin, How Shall We Then Practice
  • Health is to be sought in and for God, not instead of God.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
  • Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, Medicine as Ministry
  • Along with all creation, medicine will ultimately be redeemed in the age to come. In the in-between time, it is our task to happily participate in God’s work.— Farr Curlin, How Shall We Then Practice
  • A doctor needs to convey the idea that 'I will always, always be there. I will be with you through the end. I will never abandon you.'— Abraham Verghese, Human Touch is Integral to the Art of Medicine
  • Health care, in the final analysis, is not about results... Health care is about being there with people in their finitude and doubt, in their pain and uncertainty.— Daniel P. Sulmasy The Healer's Calling
  • Abortion is not a question about the law, but about what kind of people we are to be as the church and as Christians.— Stanley Hauerwas Abortion, Theologically Understood
  • Only health professionals who are grateful can be joyful. To be joyful is to be attentive to the profound meaning of the privilege or serving the sick and to be grateful for that privilege.— Daniel P. Sulmasy, The Healer's Calling
  • Health-seeking behavior is not death prevention; it is life enhancement.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
  • One might well ask whether we desire to live in order to live healthily and well, or whether we desire to be healthy and virtuous merely in order to stay alive.— Leon Kass, Regarding the End of Medicine and the Pursuit of Health
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