Life, Cancer and God Quotes

“You see, natural cancer treatments don’t make money for the drug companies.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“doesn’t take long for man to mess up anything we get our hands on. Without God at the center, we eventually manage to make a mess of everything.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Why should I poison my body for odds that terrible?”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“the medical system, at least here in the U.S., if something is found that works naturally—something that cannot be patented—it is removed from public view as quickly as possible and discredited as ineffective. At the same time, incredibly dangerous and ineffective synthetic drugs are routinely approved by the FDA and prescribed for the public.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Sure, we need hospitals for broken bones, accidents, things like that. But for treating disease or chronic illness—hospitals are a death trap.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“having trouble believing it’s more difficult for the cancer industry to find a cure for cancer than it was for science to find a way to go to the moon. But why would the industry want to find a cure when it’s so lucrative not to?”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“The public is conditioned to believe new and better drugs are the answer to our medical problems, but that is seldom the case.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“The medical industry doesn’t want to cure cancer. The industry would lose too much money, too many jobs, and too much power.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“The FDA constantly approves drugs—not necessarily because they’re helpful to the patient but because they bring in money and profits to the huge pharmaceutical industry. True, some of the drugs extend the life of cancer patients—but none of them cure cancer.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Well, truth is often hard to hear, but truth is freeing. And regarding cancer, the truth is this: money—rather than what’s best for the patient—rules. And that’s the truth.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“We also learned the medical world calls a patient ‘cured’ if the cancer doesn’t return within five years.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Lord, my whole world is turning upside down. First the news about cancer. Then the doctors’ treatment plans. And now I find out the treatments may make things worse,”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“You’re dealing with a deadly disease. There is no way you’re going to be able to work and fight this battle at the same time.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Missing those all-important life events like weddings and grandchildren, not celebrating the victories and special experiences or being there to offer support and share the tears of painful circumstances that were sure to invade the lives of those I loved. My grandparents and parents were supposed to die before me. Leaving behind all the precious people in my life would be my greatest regret. I was a wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. I couldn’t imagine not being”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“grabbed our hands and led us in prayer, asking God for guidance and His healing touch on our bodies.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Having another Christian woman who was dealing with cancer, one I could talk to, had been a real help.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“The study went on to state that by prescribing toxic drugs, performing unnecessary surgeries, or simply making a mistake, doctors are causing the deaths of hundreds of thousands of patients every year.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“More people die each year from preventable medical errors in hospitals than from breast cancer and automobile accidents combined.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“He had shared his acquired distrust of the medical system with me after watching numerous friends die in hospitals because of what appeared to be incompetence.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“chemotherapy as a cancer cure is pathetic.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“To start with, a person is considered ‘cured of cancer’ if they don’t die within five years of diagnosis.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“But so far, I’m finding very little about rates of people being cured.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“chemotherapy does not work for the majority of cancers.’ And”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“these drugs were initially derived from the nitrogen mustard gas experiments during World War I and World War II. These poisons—and that’s exactly what they are—kill all fast-growing cells. Well, since cancer cells are fast growing, some genius decided to try these chemicals on cancer.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“I’ll keep praying and asking God to reveal something more—if there is more.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“How can I get better by getting sicker first?”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Everyone in the business of cancer, from the doctors and nurses to the salespeople in the shops, seems to know just how to handle me. Do they go through some special training to make everything seem pleasant and natural?”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“Two of the five women had a recurrence of cancer. That’s a pretty high percentage. And who was to say cancer wouldn’t return in one or more of the other three? It started to become clear to us that the medical industry had created a cancer conveyor belt.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer

“the cancer was in my lymph nodes and my doctor was afraid it had already spread.”
― Paula Black, Life, Cancer and God: Beating Terminal Cancer