Top 96 Brokenness Quotes & Sayings

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

In a strange way the spiritual life isn't "useful" or "successful." But it is meant to be fruitful. And fruitfulness comes out of brokenness.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.

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

God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness.

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.

If we only identify with the mortal world, then we identify with a level of scarcity and lack and brokenness, and that will be our experience.

Brokenness is God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.

Whatever your pleasure, belief, sorrow or triumph... we are all human and we are all constantly facing some sort of brokenness. Of the heart, of finances, of family, of dreams... it is real pain and it can’t be ignored.

To be truly seen and understood - in all our innocence and glory and yes, our brokenness, too - is to be delivered into the spiritual ethers where both seen and seer are healed.

When I come clean about my brokenness, others catch glimpses of how the real grace of a real God works in the messy life of a real person.

To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.

The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.

Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. It is saying “Yes, Lord!” - no resistance, no chafing, no stubbornness - simply submitting myself to His direction and will in my life.

I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity.

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

I'm unfinished. I'm unfixed. And the reality is that's where God meets me is in the mess of my life, in the unfixedness, in the brokenness. I thought he did the opposite, he got rid of all that stuff. But if you read the Bible, if you look at it at all, constantly he was showing up in people's lives at the worst possible time of their life.

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

We are all broken by something. We have all hurt someone and have been hurt. We all share the condition of brokenness even if our brokenness is not equivalent.

Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

True brokenness is a lifestyle - a moment-by-moment lifestyle of agreeing with God about the true condition of my heart and life - not as everyone else thinks it is but as He knows it to be.

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

Along the way, he or she discovers that the world has been broken for as long as anyone can remember. Everyone, sooner or later, gets a thorough schooling in brokenness. The question becomes what to do with the pieces?

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

A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.

God reminded me how beautiful we all are to Him, after all, we were created in His own image, and He looks at me, at you, in all our sweat and dirt and brokenness, and says, "I choose you. You are beautiful.

A mystic is anyone who has the gnawing suspicion that the apparent discord, brokenness, contradictions and discontinuities that assault us every day might conceal a hidden unity.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

...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 and rage.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

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 our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

Without the incarnation, Christianity isn’t even a very good story, and most sadly, it means nothing. "Be nice to one another" is not a message that can give my life meaning, assure me of love beyond brokenness, and break open the dark doors of death with the key of hope.

So many young people are coming out of a generation that has experienced deep woundedness and brokenness, and they are full of life. They are eager to engage. They care about community, and they care about one another.

The immense joy in welcoming back the lost son hides in the immense sorrow that has gone before....our brokenness may appear beautiful, but our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

Our life is full of brokenness - broken relationships, broken promises, broken expectations. How can we live with that brokenness without becoming bitter and resentful except by returning again and again to God's faithful presence in our lives.

There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us.

What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.

Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

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.

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

My brokenness has made me become more primal, more instinctual.

Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

So how can I hold Tobias’s desperation against him, like I’m better than him, like I’ve never let my own brokenness blind me?

The Kabbalists say that the holy one of the universe is broken, and that we are extensions of the holy one and carry that brokenness inside of us. Our task is to fix our brokenness and hence the brokenness of the holy one.

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

We'll rail against the way the government has destroyed our health care market in one breath and resist the support offered to the poor and middle class to navigate this brokenness with the other. This is not conservative; it is incoherence masquerading as ideological purity.

Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness.

You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.