Brokenness Quotes - Page 3

• Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

  John Piper

  Parent, Grace, Bitterness

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• The dichotomies, the brokenness of the culture around things like the Vietnam war, and then a lot of it has to do with war and where we put our energy and money and attention. And the military industrial complex, which dominates our whole economy. Even with the vision of democracy in other places we know the dark side.

  Anne Waldman

  War, Military, Dark

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.

  John Green

  Heart, Perfect, Crooked

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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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• Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationship, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world ... That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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• Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken.

  Trip Lee

  Broken, Perfect, Scripture

  Twitter post from Jan 13, 2015

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• True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Heart, Thinking, Moments

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy”, p.44, Moody Publishers

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• The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Beautiful, Son, Compassion

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• God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

  Alan Redpath

  Joy, Tears, Unbroken

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• The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

  Gordon Dalbey

  Forgiveness, Grief, Humble

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• His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Ocean, Eye

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.198, Pan Macmillan

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• When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

  Alan Cohen

  Eye, Perfection, Saws

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• It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Art, Healing

  FaceBook post by N. T. Wright from Jun 22, 2013

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• A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

  Marianne Williamson

  World, Holy, Risen

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• To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

  Michael Card

  Comprehension, Humans

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• Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

  Samantha Boscarino

  People, Shining, Gold

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most unmarried people have no idea what it takes to make a marriage work; they grossly underestimate the price people have to pay to build long-term, mutually satisfying relationships. And they fail to understand that the only people with the strength to pay that price are those who have plumbed the depths of their relationship with God, and have dealt with their own brokenness.

  Bill Hybels

  Ideas, Long, People

  Bill Hybels, Lynne Hybels (1993). “Fit to be Tied: Making Marriage Last a Lifetime”, p.39, Zondervan

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• We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Broken, Suffering, Ashes

  Elisabeth Elliot (2004). “A Lamp unto My Feet: The Bible's Light for Your Daily Walk”, p.34, Gospel Light Publications

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

  Alice Sebold

  Beautiful, Narrative, Language

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• Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Children, Crazy, Lying

  "Girl, Interrupted". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

  James McGreevey

  Grateful, Humility

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• Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Grace, Flow

  Twitter post from Jun 05, 2015

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• Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams... it is real pain and it can’t be ignored.

  Hayley Williams

  Dream, Pain, Real

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• To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Innocence, Glory

  "Enchanted Love". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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