Brokenness Quotes

• Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

  Charles Stanley

  Requirements, Maximum, Usefulness

  Charles Stanley (2013). “NASB, The Charles F. Stanley Life Principles Bible, eBook”, p.863, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

  Sheila Walsh

  Bridges, People, Deep Thought

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• Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Self, Resistance, Saying Yes

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness: The Heart God Revives”, p.51, Moody Publishers

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• Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

  Henri Nouwen

  Relationship, Broken, Expectations

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• Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

  Gerald May

  Blessing, Way, Sometimes

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• Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

  Henri Nouwen

  Lonely, Hurt, Pain

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2017). “You are the Beloved: Daily Meditations for Spiritual Living”, Hachette UK

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• Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

  Tony Evans

  Breakthrough, Be Encouraged

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2014

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• There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Understanding, Humanity, Desire

  Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.290, Spiegel & Grau

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• When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

  Jason Gray

  Real, Grace, Glimpse

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• Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Mean, Perfection, Doe

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

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• And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Ideas, Drunk, Ends

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• In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

  Henri Nouwen

  Spiritual, Successful, Way

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

  Bryan Stevenson

  Life, Hurt, Broken

  Bryan Stevenson (2014). “Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption”, p.301, Spiegel & Grau

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• You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

  LeCrae

  Broken, Made, Whole

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• Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

  John Ortberg

  Spirituality, Genuine, Please

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• If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

  Peter Rollins

  Speak, Ifs

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• Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.

  J.R. Miller

  Inspirational, Strength, God

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• We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Firsts, Revival, Mets

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• When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.

  Heather Hart

  Together Again, Back Together, Shattered

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• The power of the Church is not a parade of flawless people, but of a flawless Christ who embraces our flaws. The Church is not made up of whole people, rather of the broken people who find wholeness in a Christ who was broken for us.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Jesus, Power, Broken

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• If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building.

  John Ortberg

  Love, Neat And Tidy, Community

  John Ortberg (2009). “The Me I Want to Be”, p.202, Zondervan

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• Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Beauty, Mistake

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• The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Broken Heart

  "Donald Trump Fails George W. Bush's Lessons From 9/11" by John Bridgeland, time.com. October 19, 2016.

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• It is not what we do that matters, but what a sovereign God chooses to do through us. God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience. The Kingdom of God is a kingdom of paradox, where through the ugly defeat of a cross, a holy God is utterly glorified. Victory comes through defeat; healing through brokenness; finding self through losing self.

  Charles Colson

  Healing, Self, Achievement

  Charles Colson (1997). “Loving God”, p.25, Zondervan

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• Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life.

  Mike Yaconelli

  Reality, Opposites, Showing Up

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