A curated library for Christian faith and the practice of medicine.
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
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
To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
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
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
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
Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, Medicine as Ministry
Health is to be sought in and for God, not instead of God.— Margaret E. Mohrmann, Medicine as Ministry
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
