Quotes About Brokenness

There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

We are all so broken. Pick up a person, shake them around and you'll hear the rattling of their broken pieces. Pieces our fathers broke, or our mothers, or our friends, strangers, or our loves.

There were times when he wondered whether the spell that bound him also deceived him. Perhaps it allowed him these illusions of freedom, all the better to lull him into submission. Perhaps Akama was more like his people than he knew. Perhaps he was, after all, the perfect broken leader for a perfectly broken people.

Could not but think, as I have often remarked to others, that much more of true religion consists in deep humility, brokenness of heart, and an abasing sense of barrenness and want of grace and holiness than most who are called Christians imagine

Sin is more basic than what we do. Sin is who we are. In this regard we could say that sin is fundamentally a matter of ontology (being), not simply morality. To be a human is to be a sinner. It is to be broken, damaged goods that carry within our deepest self a fundamental, fatal flaw—a flaw that masks our original creation goodness and infects our very being.

Brokenness is God's requirement for maximum usefulness.

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.

Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.

God has ordained that our preaching become deeper and more winsome as we are broken, humbled, and made low and desperately dependent on grace by the trials of our lives.

God can never entrust His Kingdom to anyone who has not been broken of pride, for pride is the armour of darkness itself.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.

Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.

God loves to take people from broken backgrounds and surprise them with possibilities.

Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.

God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.

Grace doesn't obsess with ourselves. It obsesses with people and with brokenness. This is a hard place to live, but God is bigger than hard places to live.

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

When our heart is broken, we can't hear it. And when we can't hear our heart, we can't hear God.

When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.

Neither a person entirely broken nor one entirely whole can speak. In sorrow, pretend to be fearless. In happiness, tremble.

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy.

She wants to go home, but nobody's home. That's why she lies, broken inside. With no place to go, no place to go, to dry her eyes, broken inside.