Francis Collins Quotes

I'm very much interested in having people take herbs that make them feel good because if they do that, they'll have an experience, and they'll say, 'Oh, this is real.' This is something you take, and you don't have to go on faith, but you can feel the difference.

It is plain that God does not employ drugs or hygiene, nor provide them for human use; else Jesus would have recommended and employed them in his healing.

I cured with the power that came through me.

Monica Besra, a Bengali woman from a remote Indian village, was reportedly suffering from a malignant ovarian tumor when she went, in 1998, to a hospice founded by Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity. Nuns at the mission reportedly placed a medallion with Teresa's image on Besra's abdomen, and the tumor disappeared.

A woman in Mexico wanted me to heal her. But I can't heal anybody. I just put my hand on her and said, 'Thank you for seeing the film.'

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

If they take their children to doctors, they believe they are putting their faith in man instead of in God.

There have been times when we've been playing, and people who were sick were totally healed.

Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.

Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame - if such healing accomplishes God's purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.

The anointing, which is God's power, comes on me... I can actually feel it. And people start getting healed. From the cancer, the pain is gone.

Over the years, there's been some cases where people did come up who said they were healed, but really they were not healed. I do believe it's possible for individuals to mentally convince themselves they are, but that does not deny the real healings. That doesn't dismiss the fact that a lot of people are really cured.

I have found myself able to cure people with my hands.

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

I can see you being set free, saved, healed, blessed - in the name of Jesus Christ!

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Time doesn't heal anything... only God can heal

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

I'm going to my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.

The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

Jesus did not command us to pray for the sick.He commanded us to heal them.

Jesus has paid for my healing. Disease has no right to be in my body. I am healed in Jesus’ name!