Brokenness Quotes
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"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
"And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness."
"You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too."
"God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever."
"To be unbroken, what would that be?If words that were spoken, had not shattered me"
"A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains."
"I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that"
"She made broken look beautifuland strong look invincible.She walked with the Universeon her shoulders and made itlook like a pair of wings."
"There at the cross, we see all pain and darkness conquered in such a way that it is defeated forever. Not by disregarding it. Not by denying it. But by giving value even to our tears. By loving everything about us, including our very worst hurts."
Jocelyn Soriano, 366 Days of Compassion: One Year Devotional
"How do you wipe away pain? You don’t. You put in tenderness, compassion and joy. You cling to hope and then you offer everything to God. And you wait, with faith you see all things anew – light shines out from darkness, happiness grows through every pain, and all things become indeed so very beautiful in His time."
Jocelyn Soriano, 366 Days of Compassion: One Year Devotional
"The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion... People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to be embraced with love. A love that enters into their own fears and frailty, a love that suffers with them and stays with them through their darkest hour."
Jocelyn Soriano, 366 Days of Compassion: One Year Devotional
"If you spend time judging and criticizing people, you will not have time to heal from your pain or brokenness. You cannot love yourself when you judge or criticize others who are created in God's image and after His Likeness...in which you are also created. Love cannot operate from a space of pain. Love and hurt cannot reside in the same space."
"When he had promised himself that he wouldn't try to repair Jude, he had forgotten that to solve someone is to want to repair them: to diagnose a problem and then not try to fix that problem seemed not only neglectful but immoral."
"Can a broken cistern hold water?"
"I am a lover of words and tragically beautiful things, poor timing and longing, and all things with soul, and I wonder if that means I am entirely broken, or if those are the things that have been keeping me whole."
"You know what a supernova is? It's a dead star. And yet, it is the most beautiful specimen in the universe. Lots of people are supernovas but don't know it, they think that they're dead; they don't know that they're beautiful."
"Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness."
"Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently."
"Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair."
"Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth."
"Today, I saw an owl with broken eyes. A blind owl with eyes that look like a dark night filled with bright stars. I used to think that no one could really love a person so broken in so many places. But the broken owl has two eyes filled with a starry universe, and that's when I realised, that you can be loved for your brokenness. Not just despite it. It only takes someone who knows what a starry universe would feel like. Broken is beautiful, too. And sometimes even more beautiful."
"...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood...God wanted a broken vessel."
"All individuals have moral deficiencies, and when introducing these to reality one not only strengthens himself but also the confidence of others in the human exigency for Christ due to a reflection throughout the body of Christ."
"Only the broken beyond repair could know my anguish."
"Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness"
"God heals the human heart from any brokenness."
"I'd never known that I could feel this broken and whole at once."
"I look around at everybody laughing and joking together and struggle to understand my life has become a living hell that nobody present could even begin to imagine"
"If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself."
"You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn't another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don't need to be fixed. Maybe, what's really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework."
"By embracing our brokenness, we don’t come to Christ's feet occasionally, but we stay at His feet continuously."
"I'm convinced that the world, more than ever, needs the music only you can make. And if it takes extra courage to keep playing in spite of your loss, many will applaud the effort. And who knows? Others may be inspired to pick up their broken instruments, their broken lives, and begin again."
"Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe."
Henri J.M. Nouwen, Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
"In the process of helping others, I helped myself. In acting out of my own brokeness I became whole again. It's the kind of strength and determination you find when you have hit rock bottom and you realize you could die right now - and want to, but realize that even death won't make the difference you were hoping for."
"May the Lord heal the broken hearted."
"Life is a broken thing. It's what we do with the pieces that defines us."
"We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained."
"People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most."
"Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away."
"It certainly is a puzzle.” He turned back to the broken road. “But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith."
"Plus, once he did the requisite double-take and recognized me, he’d probably beat the crap out of any guy who looked at me in all my Snow White meets Frederick’s of Hollywood glory."
"I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not. I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew."
Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith
"For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery"
"In reality, I'm happy without you and I'm less free with your presence."
"We all have cracks and tears and shattered glass within our souls. Some have more than others. We do not wish to seek one who has none; but we wish to find the one who can say "look at me, look at this." We wish to find the one who sees every bit of broken glass and who will put those pieces into the palms of our hands and say "please keep them." And we wish to be that kind of person, too. This is how it should be."
"I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me."
"Wholeness is birthed through vulnerability and sensitivity, which is often conceived in brokenness. Jesus taught me this."
Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
"We have a choice. We can embrace our humanness, which means embracing our broken natures and the compassion that remains our best hope for healing. Or we can deny our brokenness, forswear compassion, and, as a result, deny our own humanity."
"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence."
Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.
"the pavement makes no soundas it touches your feetcalm and constantlike silence on repeatlanguidly your thoughts bleedinto the evening airin crimson red the words read'some things are beyond repair"
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