Best Brokenness Quotes

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 us to cry out with those in misery, to mourn with those who are lonely, to weep with those in tears. Compassion requires us to be weak with the weak, vulnerable with the vulnerable, and powerless with the powerless. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human.

There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.

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

You’ve got to admit you’re broken before you can be made whole.

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

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.

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?

A true Christian will be sensitive to the sin in their life and it will lead them to brokenness and genuine confession, but the person who says they are a Christian and are not sensitive to sin, it does not lead them to confession, a person who is that way is not a Christian.

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

Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. Knowing this gives me hope that human wholeness – mine, yours, ours – need not be a utopian dream, if we can use devastation as a seedbed for new life

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

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

Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

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

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

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

The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness.

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

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.

Im unfinished. Im unfixed. And the reality is thats 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 peoples lives at the worst possible time of their life.

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

When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even more glorious than we were before we were shattered.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

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

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.

Our suffering is often the deep soul groaning for the purposes of God in and through us. Mission cannot be fulfilled without love, and we cannot love without groaning and suffering over the brokenness in others’ lives. As a result, we cannot accomplish our mission without suffering.

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

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.