Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
A wise physician, skill'd our wounds to heal, is more than armies to the public weal.
He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.
Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.
as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure
Doctors most commonly get mixed up between absence of evidence and evidence of abense
I might have made a tactical error not going to a physician for 20 years. It was one of those phobias that didn't pay off.
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