Brokenness Quotes

72 quotes by 59 authors

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. — Alice Sebold
The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you donâ€™t know you have. — Amy Neftzger
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… — Alanis Morissette
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places. — Samantha Power
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or brokenness in our lives; while… — Anne Lamott
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more. — Ursula Hegi
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. — Rumi
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 --… — Alice Sebold
I want neither a terrorist spirituality that keeps me in a perpetual state of fright about being in right relationship with my heavenly Father nor… — Brennan Manning
...one of the worst things about being a parent, for me, is the self-discovery, the being face to face with one's secret insanity and brokenness… — Anne Lamott
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… — Henri Nouwen
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… — N. T. Wright
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… — N. T. Wright
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… — Jean Vanier
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… — Charles Colson
She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness. — Neal Shusterman
...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy. — Henri Nouwen
You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect. — John Green
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
So how can I hold Tobiasâ€™s desperation against him, like Iâ€™m better than him, like Iâ€™ve never let my own brokenness blind me? — Veronica Roth

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