Sickness and healing are in every heart. Death and deliverance are in every hand.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Every person holds the potential to harm or heal, and every person holds the potential to end or save life.
- In plain terms
- Everyone has the power to hurt or help, to end life or save it.
- What can you take from it?
- Human agency is equally capable of destruction and restoration.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What choice do you make today?
- How do you use your power?
Another view
Not everyone has equal power to affect life and death.
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