Disfigure Quotes
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.
- Alister McGrath

This is truly a remarkable and historic time in plastic surgery. The ability to help restore some hope to a person who suffers from severe facial disfigurement for an improved quality of life is a wonderful thing. Still, there are many unanswered questions regarding this challenge and many important considerations for all involved.
- Bruce Cunningham

There is no greater offence to our sense of humanity than to see people who have been so deliberately and barbarically disfigured. When we were first confronted with victims of mutilation, some of whom had had their lips cut off, we quickly realized that reconstructive surgery would help enable them to regain some quality of life. The MSF team will also provide counseling so that these patients can learn to live with these horrifying experiences.
- Christine Schmitz

SCARIFICATION, n. A form of penance practised by the mediaeval pious. The rite was performed, sometimes with a knife, sometimes with a hot iron, but always, says Arsenius Asceticus, acceptably if the penitent spared himself no pain nor harmless disfigurement. Scarification, with other crude penances, has now been superseded by benefaction. The founding of a library or endowment of a university is said to yield to the penitent a sharper and more lasting pain than is conferred by the knife or iron, and is therefore a surer means of grace. There are, however, two grave objections to it as a penitential method: the good that it does and the taint of justice.
- Ambrose Bierce

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