Quotes About Broken

It is a grave misconception to regard the mystical progress as passing mostly through ecstasies and raptures. On the contrary, it passes just as much through broken hearts and bruised emotions, through painful sacrifices and melancholy renunciations.

The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one part of it shines with anything like the pure glory that was so evident when it was first made. Sin has left this world in a sorry condition. You see it everywhere you look.

This side of eternity in this broken world, cursing is the default language of the kingdom of self, but mourning is the default language of the kingdom of God. Which language will you speak today?

And Scripture is clear—this is not paradise, and it won't be. Rather, this moment is a time of preparation for the paradise that is to come, where everything that sin has broken will be fully restored to what God originally intended it to be.

suffering is not an unusual, surprising experience; it's the experience of everyone who lives in this dramatically broken world.

I am a murderer. I simply have not yet murdered. But I will, given time. The good in me is draining away into the dark hole in my center. My soul is broken. I am broken. I am my father's son.

These may be good people, but now I realize they work in a broken system

No, it wasn't war that terrified Tatiana. It was the resolute chaos of her broken heart.

He stood beneath the white tower, and looked up at it with that mournful expression which his face always carried in repose: for one moment he thought of climbing up its cracked and broken stone, and then from its summit screaming down at the silent city as a child might scream at a chained animal.

a mournful of stained, crooked teem,

Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.

I am forgotten like a dead man, out of mind. I am like a broken vessel.

But their swords will pierce their own hearts, and their bows will be broken.

Many will stumble over these; they will fall and be broken; they will be ensnared and captured.”

My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.

Then the prophet Hananiah took the yoke off the neck of Jeremiah the prophet and broke it.

then My covenant may also be broken with David My servant and with My ministers the Levites who are priests, so that David will not have a son to reign on his throne.

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

“Son of man, I have broken the arm of Pharaoh king of Egypt. See, it has not been bound up for healing, or splinted for strength to hold the sword.

I will seek the lost, bring back the strays, bind up the broken, and strengthen the weak; but the sleek and strong I will destroy. I will shepherd them with justice.í

Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

For behold, I will raise up a shepherd in the land who will neither care for the lost, nor seek the young, nor heal the broken, nor sustain the healthy, but he will devour the flesh of the choice sheep and tear off their hooves.

He who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces, but he on whom it falls will be crushed.”