To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive. '
Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.
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?
God will never plant the seed of his life upon the soil of a hard, unbroken spirit. He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.
Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.
The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.
If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God.
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.
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.
Our task as image-bearing, God-loving, Christ-shaped, Spirit-filled Christians, following Christ and shaping our world, is to announce redemption to a world that has discovered its fallenness, to announce healing to a world that has discovered its brokenness, to proclaim love and trust to a world that knows only exploitation, fear and suspicion.
You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.
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.
