Quotes About Having A Broken Spirit

#1. When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

Suze Orman

#2. There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of 'Thy will be done.

Stephen King

#3. A happy heart is good medicine and a cheerful mind works healing, but a broken spirit dries up the bones. (Proverbs 17:22)

Joyce Meyer

#4. You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

Jack Kornfield

#5. I have had my share of sorrows-more than the common lot, perhaps, but I have borne them ill. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation.

Charles Dickens

#6. The other mother shook her head, very slowly. "Sharper than a serpent's tooth," she said, "is a daughter's ingratitude. Still, the proudest spirit can be broken, with love." And her long white fingers waggled and caressed the air.

Neil Gaiman

#7. Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.

Rand Paul

#8. I have shed many tears.
I have been broken in my spirit.
But through it all, God's grace have lifted my soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#9. Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. Better a broken bone than a broken spirit.

Majory Allen

#11. Silent tears are the worst. It's the sign of a broken spirit. No sound, no residual emotions... just tears. Silent, unstoppable tears.

N.R. Walker

#12. Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#13. Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets.

Pope Francis

#14. We have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

Frances Wright

#15. The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

John Burroughs

#16. Awakening your spiritual self is like having a second childhood with faulty parents, broken bones and proverbial brussel sprouts.

Christopher Hawke

#17. My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

Naomi Watts

#18. Bruised but not broken, Dr Robinet told me before I left. I though the was talking about my spirit, but he'd been referring to my ribs.

Gayle Forman

#19. I have broken where I should have bent; and have mused and brooded, when my spirit should have mixed with all God's great creation. The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. I have turned from the world, and I pay the penalty.

Charles Dickens

#20. I name you Elentiya." She kissed the assassin's brow. "I give you this name to use with honour, to use when other names grow too heavy. I name you Elentiya, 'Spirit That Could Not Be Broken.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. May the crushed spirit revived.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. . . . because she knows the secret: that humans need contact to thrive, that a broken heart is only one crack away from a broken spirit, and that both can be mended by smoothing on thin layers of love.

Amy Matayo

#23. Maybe I should have cut him some slack. With his broken wing and lifetime of eating roadkill, he probably had a lot to be ungrateful about. Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.

Jeannette Walls

#24. I cannot be broken. I cannot be killed. I cannot fail. This is my identity. This is my core. I am infinite. I am permanent. I am unbreakable.

Vironika Tugaleva

#25. America has a broken spirit, that the people that are saying, "Please help me, please let me keep my home, please let me keep my car, please recognize me as a vital human being," they are falling on deaf ears.

Suze Orman

#26. The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

Thomas Binney

#27. Nothing could be more dangerous than following the popular maxim whereby it is the spirit of the law that must be consulted. This is an embankment that, once broken, gives way to a torrent of opinions.

Cesare Beccaria

#28. If you are lonely, please know you can find comfort. If you are discouraged, please know you can find hope. If you are poor in spirit, please know you can be strengthened. If you feel you are broken, please know you can be mended.

Jeffrey R. Holland

#29. Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

Matthew Scully

#30. The Lord is nigh unto them that are of a broken hear; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Pslam 34.18

Laurie Alice Eakes

#31. And from that hour his poor maimed spirit, only remembering the place where it had broken its wings, cancelled the dream through which it had since groped, and knew of nothing beyond the Marshalsea.

Charles Dickens

#32. When your spirit is heavy, when your heart is broken, when your burdens seem unbearable - trust Him. Look to Him.

Anne Graham Lotz

#33. Better a spirit that does not quite fit in this world than one that is broken.

Donna Gillespie

#34. The heart can never break if you believe love never dies.

Kate McGahan