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
- Health can never be anything other than a secondary good.— Margaret E. Morhmann, Medicine as Ministry
- To be healthy is literally to be whole; to heal is to make whole.— Wendell Berry, Health is Membership
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
-
Most Viewed