David Wilkerson Quotes

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

There's nothing I love more than a good cry.

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

My tears simply broke through the fragile wallthat had held them, and with a terrible feeling of shame, I laid my head upon the table and let them drain out of me.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Any kind of loss helps when you talk about it.

I feel the dams of emotions open up more easily when one is acting.

I'm not much of a crier, actually. You know, I tend to cry and get sappy on planes.

If it's an emotional chick-flick type of movie, chances are, I'm going to end up crying. I'm not afraid to admit that, because I think emotion is very healthy.

Talking about my deepest and darkest secrets to the world makes me feel better. It's cathartic.

When I was younger, I used to say, 'I'm not making music. I am getting catharsis for emotion.' For me, vulnerability is an act of uncovering. It's a revealing: the idea of putting aside your armour and allowing pain to enter.

I cry when I feel like crying.

Let him cry whoever feels like crying, for we were animals before we became reasoning beings, and the shedding of a tear, whether of forgiveness or of pity or of sheer delight at beauty, will do him a lot of good.

I would surrender my being to see you whole once more.

Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

Dear God, May all the tears I cry, and all the tears I have not cried but hold within, pour forth into Your hands. Please take each painful thought and unhealed wound, and send angels here to me. I long for peace. Amen.

Nothing dries sooner than a tear.

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.