Broken World Quotes

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  The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  People, Broken, Grace

  Twitter post from Jan 03, 2015

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• Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creating, Broken, World

  "BOOKMARK: Terry Tempest Williams on the perspective of nature and healing". Interview with Laurie Hertzel, www.startribune.com. June 30, 2017.

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• We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.

  John Green

  Crazy, Reality, Broken

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• No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Heartbroken

  FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

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• There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

  David Wolpe

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

  John Eldredge

  Men, People, Broken

  John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

  Mary Oliver

  Morning, Broken, Serious Things

  Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.28, Beacon Press

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• We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Taken, People, Broken

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 30, 2016

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• Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

  Carter Heyward

  Healing, Love Life, Love Is

  "Our Passion for Justice". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

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• The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

  John Ortberg

  People, Broken, Needs

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• I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It is about a Father who lost His kids and He simply wants them back...I look forward to the day when we will see sons and daughers in their full expression and freedom, rising up out of every nation of the world, exhibiting and expressing the person, nature and works of our Father and walking like Jesus in this broken world.

  James Jordan

  Jesus, Father, Kids

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  We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

  Ann Voskamp

  Jesus, Broken, Grace

  Source: www.hslda.org

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• How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Meaningful, Views, Broken

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Heart, Broken

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• Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

  Philip Yancey

  Broken, Agents, World

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• If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Courage, Strong, People

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

  Aberjhani

  Healing, Wings, Broken

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.46, Lulu.com

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• Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

  Arundhati Roy

  Morning, Broken, Technique

  Arundhati Roy (2006). “Ordinary Person's Guide To Empire”, p.13, Penguin Books India

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• As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

  Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

  Moving, Broken, Tree

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• I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

  Donald Miller

  Rain, Night, Self

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.

  Dallas Willard

  Jobs, Expression, Broken

  Source: renovare.org

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• We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

  Kay Warren

  Children, Husband, Cancer

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• Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

  Katie Davis

  Broken, Adoption, Tragedy

  Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

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• Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

  Philip Yancey

  Christian, Jesus, Buddhist

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