A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.
- 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
- 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
- The physician's basic pledge is not to cure, but to care .— Stanley Hauerwas, Why Medicine Needs the Church
- Health-seeking behavior is not death prevention; it is life enhancement.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
- Just as you should not to attempt to cure the eyes without curing the head, or the head without the body, neither should you attempt to cure the body without the soul.— Plato, Charmides
- When people become illnesses all sorts of unpleasant things can happen. You don't listen to or respect illnesses, but you do persons.— John Swinton, Interview with NorthPark University
- Christian ethics is personal; it is within that personal context that we must accomplish our tasks of ministry and healing.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
- To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
- 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
