Brokenness – Separated forcibly into parts, in fragments, fractured, shattered, split, not intact or in working order, damage; produced by breaking, fragmentary.
(Oxford Dictionary)
And in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
~~~Christopher Poindexter
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
~~~Vance Havner
We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.
~~~Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
~~~F. Scott Fitzgerald
The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are.
~~~Brant Menswar
God wants us to be broken in spirit so that He can make us strong at the broken places.
~~~Billy Graham
But our brokenness is also the source of our common humanity, the basis for our shared search for comfort, meaning, and healing. Our shared vulnerability and imperfection nurtures and sustains our capacity for compassion.”
~~~Bryan Stevenson
The absence of brokenness is the biggest sponsor of rebellion against God.
~~~Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.
~~~Bryan Stevenson
Divine love is incessantly restless until it turns all woundedness into health, all deformity into beauty, all embarrassment into laughter. In biblical faith, brokenness is never celebrated as an end in itself.”
~~~Belden C. Lane
We’re all broken, all walk with a limp. Here is the truth about you and me: even when in a far-off country, wasted life, stripped bare, smeared, squandered, nothing but scar tissue and shameful, self-inflicted wounds, the love of the Father finds the son and daughter.
~~~Charles Martin
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
~~~Ernest Hemingway
Jesus didn’t say, ‘Blessed are those who care for the poor.’ He said, ‘Blessed are we where we are poor, where we are broken.’ It is there that God loves us deeply and pulls us into deeper communion with himself.
~~~Henri Nouwen
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul, but his life.
~~~Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Lord is near to the brokenhearted,
and saves the crushed in spirit.
~~~Psalm 34:18
And I will pour out a spirit of compassion and supplication on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that, when they look on the one whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
He heals the broken-hearted and binds up their wounds.
~~~Zechariah 12:10
The spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has anointed me;
he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed,
to bind up the broken-hearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and release to the prisoners;
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
~~~Isaiah 61:1
He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
Death will be no more;
mourning and crying and pain will be no more,
for the first things have passed away.’
~~~Revelation 21:4
The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
~~~Psalm 51:17
‘Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
~~~Matthew 5:3-4
Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you.
~~~1 Peter 5:7
‘Come to me, all you that are weary and are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.’
~~~Matthew 11:28-30
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
~~~Psalm 51:7
Lord, Guide me by your spirit to be able to use the setbacks and defeats of my life as a way to move forward. Allow me to offer my sufferings to you so that they may become steppingstones to a stronger, greater faith. Please give me awareness of your presence and the comfort that comes with it when I suffer. I ask that you allow me to see suffering through the eyes that you did when you went to the cross.
Amen
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