To array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.- Henry Ward Beecher

I venture to say that the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness. Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.- Charles Spurgeon

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

If hooking a car battery up to a monkey’s brain will help find the cure for AIDS and save somebody’s life, I have two things to say… the red is positive and the black is negative.

The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one’s experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey

My illness is due to my doctor’s insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies.

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it.

Those who think they have not time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness.

Sickness shows us what we are

It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.

It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better. -Samuel Butler

The world is more magical, less predictable, more autonomous, less controllable, more varied, less simple, more infinite, less knowable, more wonderfully troubling than we could have imagined being able to tolerate when we were young. -James Hollis

Hope doesn’t require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do…just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down. -Charles R. Swindoll

Consider the redwood tree. When only a stump remains, the tree can nevertheless regenerate. Little sprouts shoot up from the buds of ancient, invisible roots and actually form a circle surrounding the old stump. This is a “cathedral circle,” and the survival of some of the buds guarantees that the redwoods do not die. -Anthony Gittins