Seyyed Hossein Nasr Quotes

God cures and the doctor sends the bill.

Jesus Christ can help us fix anything that needs fixing in our lives.

Anytime you interfere with a natural process, you're playing God. God determines what happens naturally. That means when a person's ill, he shouldn't go to a doctor because he's asking for interference with God's will. But of course, patients can't think that way.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

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

Sometimes we need help from a god.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

Doctors couldn't be everywhere, so the Lord invented Vulcans. I thought you knew.

While there are many things you can do to help a loved one in need, there are some things that must be done by the Lord.

I love doctors and hate their medicine.

Good doctors get a mechanic's pleasure in making you tick over.

As time goes on, the more I value doctors and plumbers. Doctors a little more. I can fix my own toilet but I still can't operate on myself.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

If you are that person, you are more likely to believe that God cured you, this invisible force, creator of the universe, cured you, than that you had three idiotic doctors diagnose you. ... I taught physics to pre-med students who became doctors. Not all of them are smart, I assure you.

God knew my needs and took care accordingly.

When your situation has gone beyond the power of nature, it has become a curse. Who can remove a curse but Jesus Christ?

What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

We need good laws, but no law can change a human heart - only God can do that.

If you have an anxiety lay it down before The Lord

I always wondered if the good people who send us bibles really think that hookworm and hunger are healed by scripture? Our patients are illiterate.

I walk into the clubhouse today and it's like walking into the Mayo Clinic. We have four doctors, three therapists and five trainers. Back when I broke in, we had one trainer who carried a bottle of rubbing alcohol, and by the 7th inning he'd already drunk it.

If He has said much about prayer, it is because He knows we have much need of it.

There aren't enough doctors in Africa. Those who choose to become doctors here don't do it for the money or because they want to do good. They do it because they have to heal, the way most people need to breathe or eat or love.

the fastest-growing brand of religion is of the magical 'name it and claim it' variety, in which the deity exists only to meet one's immediate, self-identified needs.