Top 100 Quotes About Brokenness
#1. So how can I hold Tobias's desperation against him, like I'm better than him, like I've never let my own brokenness blind me?
Veronica Roth
#2. 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
#3. Having difficult times and grief and brokenness, does not mean that life is over. These are just bumps in the road, obstacles to be overcome and made stepping stones into a long successful life.
Teresa St. Frances
#4. I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.
LeCrae
#5. We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us.
Nikki Rowe
#6. ...I understood that even as we are caught in a web of hurt and brokenness, we're also in a web of healing and mercy.
Bryan Stevenson
#7. Sometimes a broken heart can mend something else's brokenness
Munia Khan
#8. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.
Richelle Thompson
#9. Generosity does give birth to intimacy - but there's a far deeper intimacy when we're generous in sharing our brokenness.
Ann Voskamp
#10. To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
Dan B. Allender
#11. Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.
Louie Giglio
#12. The Church, as Jesus seems to be defining it, is the gathering of accepted brokenness. It's not the gathering of the saved.
Richard Rohr
#13. music has, quite literally, saved my life and, I believe, the lives of countless others. It provides company when there is none, understanding where there is confusion, comfort where there is distress, and sheer, unpolluted energy where there is a hollow shell of brokenness and fatigue. And
James Rhodes
#14. to understand him, the temper and the challenge, the brokenness and the stubbornness,
Lisa-Jo Baker
#15. It is through that brokenness that we find courage and strength. It is what empowers us to do great things.
K.S. Ruff
#16. In the beauty of the world, we are to see God's existence. In the brokenness of the world, we are to see God's justice. As we do, we run back to the place where we see God's mercy: the cross.
Timothy Keller
#17. There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.
Jan Karon
#18. A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.
Lawrence Kushner
#19. Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD ... but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#20. If the Gospel of Jesus is relational, that is, if our brokenness will be fixed not by our understanding of theology but by God telling us who we are, then this would require a kind of intimacy of which only Heaven knows.
Donald Miller
#21. 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
#22. Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
John C. Maxwell
#23. In our own ways, we are all broken. Out of that brokenness, we hurt others. Forgiveness is the journey we take toward healing the broken parts. It is how we become whole again.
Desmond Tutu
#24. Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life
Parker J. Palmer
#25. Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.
Bryan Stevenson
#26. It's really not so much about the amount of yeses or nos; it's about the brokenness behind our answers.
Michelle Anthony
#27. We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#28. We share a reckless, toxic love that feeds the brokenness in me, in us. Our love is an addiction. A love that I won't ever consider living without.
Angie McKeon
#29. Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.
Tony Evans
#30. Activating our light and our full potential requires that we embrace our shadow. Realizing our wholeness requires us to become big enough to hold our brokenness.
Derek Rydall
#31. False humility and morbid introspection are, in fact, the opposite of brokenness, as they reveal a preoccupation with self, rather than Christ.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#32. The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#33. Step One is about recognizing our brokenness.
Bill W.
#35. 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
#36. Our lives,our brokenness,our flaws and failures are precisely what God designed to reflect a perfect love.
Peter Adejimi
#37. Brokenness is God's requirement for maximum usefulness.
Charles Stanley
#38. We connect with others through brokenness and pain. That's the heart of Christianity. It's in our pain we are able to reach them - not through triumphant and victorious living.
Michael Joel Green
#39. I realize that it isn't very fashionable to talk about some things being holy; nevertheless, if we ever want to rid ourselves of personal and corporate emptiness, brokenness, loneliness, and fear, we have to allow ourselves room for that which we can not see, hear, touch , or control.
Fred Rogers
#40. Jesus was tender toward brokenness but impatient toward egotism.
Jen Hatmaker
#41. The fact is, we will all be broken - sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness - we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#42. People don't flaunt their brokenness when trying to prove themselves.
Jefferson Bethke
#43. Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.
Samantha Power
#44. Thank you for patience that you may reward it, thank you for brokenness that you may mend it, thank you for love that you may enlarge it above our most heartfelt expectations.
Jan Karon
#45. every time she remembered something painful, she could lift it up with her hands in worship or prayer and God would take her brokenness like an offering.
Nancy Alcorn
#46. We can be seduced ... by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.
Jean Vanier
#47. 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
#48. I looked up and beyond him again, focusing in on the horror that swords, arrows, clubs, and staffs left behind on human flesh. The open wounds. The blood, The brokenness. The inglorious remains of war.
Lisa Tawn Bergren
#49. The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.
Ross Macdonald
#50. But they did not blame God for this or ask Him for more. They knew their circumstances were due to the brokenness of this world and they simply praised Jesus for keeping them alive through it all. They believed in His goodness.
Katie J. Davis
#51. It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity.
John Eldredge
#52. Her heart is no longer hers, it belongs to him, in all its brokenness and vulnerability. She prays that he protects it and doesn't finish the job, completely destroying it.
Karen-Anne Stewart
#53. Our brokenness can lead to building great things in our lives. Use your despair to help better humanity and never to hurt it
Timothy Pina
#54. Everything that was broken has
forgotten its brokenness. I live
now in a sky-house, through every
window the sun. Also your presence.
Our touching, our stories. Earthy
and holy both. How can this be, but
it is. Every day has something in
it whose name is Forever.
Mary Oliver
#55. Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.
John Ortberg
#56. Yes, I am sinful and flawed, but I am also loved and welcomed. It doesn't really matter what other people say or do. God loves me, even in my brokenness, and that's all that matters.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#57. Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.
Marquita Burke-DeJesus
#58. If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.
Peter Rollins
#59. He allows brokenness in our lives in order to bring about a blessing.
Charles F. Stanley
#61. You and I will never meet God in revival until we first meet Him in brokenness.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#62. Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.
Anne Jackson
#63. What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.
Alanis Morissette
#64. Learning the way of grace is about truth. It's reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others' infinite value - despite our depths of
brokenness.
James Prescott
#65. Maybe it was that brokenness inside of Bentley that I recognized and drew me to him, I didn't know. I just remember thinkin' how I wanted to know more about him. And I wanted to make him smile. Cause' that boy never smiled.
Ashleigh Z.
#66. Revelation is for human salvation, the mending of human brokenness (Athanasius, On the Incarnation of the Word 3).
Thomas C. Oden
#67. Most people are pleasant when the world is going the way they want. But a person's character can be seen most clearly when the brokenness of the world has invaded his or her peace, when the way he or she thinks things ought to be is interrupted, disrupted, and dismantled.
Matt Chandler
#68. God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, I choose you. You are beautiful.
Katie J. Davis
#69. The real model for health, however, is more complicated. The real model goes like this: eating low-quality foods leads to overeating and metabolic brokenness, which makes you overweight and sick.
Stefani Ruper
#71. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.
John Eldredge
#72. Whether it is overbearing parents, rebellious children, or an unfaithful spouse, God has the ability to transform our brokenness and use it to further his purposes. He also has a habit of using our dysfunction to deepen our devotion to him.
Michael Whitworth
#73. If we really believe the gospel we proclaim, we'll be honest about our own beauty and brokenness, and the beautiful broken One will make himself known to our neighbors through the chinks in our armor - and in theirs.
Fil Anderson
#74. Having felt the piercing gash of grief and lived through it, having loved to the brink of brokenness, and having learned the difference between friendship and frivolity, one eventually takes a conscious step through the invisible membrane that separates hubris from humility ...
Eldonna Edwards
#75. Real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#76. Chaos,
leave me never,
keep me wild
and keep me free
so that my
brokenness will be,
the only beauty
the world will see.
Robert M. Drake
#77. We all have broken hearts, its what we do with the brokenness that determines whether we dwell in life or loss.
Beth Weikel
#78. 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.
Lauren Miller
#79. Daniel: You're beautiful, Ashlyn. I don't just mean your looks. I mean your smarts, your tears, your brokenness. I think that's beautiful.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#80. Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others' lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.
Gregory Beale
#82. In brokenness comes beauty, divine fragility.
MercyMe
#84. When you really love someone, you see all their mess and their brokenness and you love them anyway. In fact, seeing all of that sort of makes you love them more.
Heather Hepler
#85. The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing.
Ann Voskamp
#86. I had forged her myself, out of brokenness, learning to love wildness instead of fearing it. To thrive on the exhilaration of the hunt, charging headlong into the world even when it hurt to do it.
Paula McLain
#87. In fact, Carol and I have told each other more than once that if the spirit of brokenness and calling on God ever slacks off in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, we'll know we're in trouble, even if we have 10,000 in attendance.
Jim Cymbala
#88. 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
#90. From the first that was a part of his attraction to her: not her brokenness but her potential for being mended and, even more, the challenge that mending her would pose. He
Michael Chabon
#91. We cannot know healing without knowing sickness. We cannot know peace without knowing anxiety. We cannot know light without experiencing darkness. And we cannot believe in the redeeming work of God without seeing the brokenness he is at work in.
Katie Blackburn
#92. ain't nothing perfect but our brokenness
Rick Julian
#93. Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
Gary Bauer
#95. Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don't think it's okay to be weak ... We have been injured in many ways and our real self houses all of the evidence of those injuries. The pain, the brokenness and the emotional underdevelopment we all possess is part of who we really are.
Henry Cloud
#96. The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don't know you have.
Amy Neftzger
#97. Sometimes we don't discover our purpose until the darkest moments strip us of everything and all we are left with is brokenness and heartache. It is in these moments, ironically, when hope becomes our strength and carries us
Danny Gokey
#98. Christ invites us to remain in touch with the many sufferings of every day and to taste the beginning of hope and new life right there, where we live amid our hurts and pains and brokenness.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#99. Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness
Samantha Boscarino
#100. Broken people find beauty in chaos. It's a perk, and it's landed you me so be grateful of all my brokenness.
R.J. Lewis
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