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Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance. -- John C. Maxwell
Brokenness is the shattering of my self-will - the absolute surrender of my will to the will of God. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
Brokenness is Godâ??s requirement for maximum usefulness. -- Charles Stanley
Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality. -- John Ortberg
Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged. -- Tony Evans
The wound is the place where the Light enters you. -- Rumi
Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing. -- Louie Giglio
Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way. -- Gerald May
My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was. -- Sheila Walsh
Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places. -- Samantha Power
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life. -- Parker J. Palmer
...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy. -- Henri Nouwen
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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. -- Henri Nouwen
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. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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 -- Parker J. Palmer
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. -- Alan Redpath
What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up. -- Alanis Morissette
Brokenness to redemption, where mercy and grace kiss both sides of our face.Brokenness where we are split open.Redemption where God knits us back together.Mercy when we don't get the punishment we do deserve. Grace when we get the lavish love gifts we don't deserve. So here we are. -- Lysa TerKeurst
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. -- Paul Washer
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. -- N. T. Wright
If ever there were a true "just as I am" church, if ever there were a community where everybody could bring all their baggage and brokenness with them without neat and tidy happy endings quite yet, if ever there was a group where everyone was loved and no one pretended - we could not make enough room inside the building. -- John Ortberg
The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. -- Ross MacDonald
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. -- Shannon L. Alder
Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness. -- Tullian Tchividjian
I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility. -- James McGreevey
Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom. -- John Mark Green
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead. -- Dan B. Allender
She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness. -- Neal Shusterman
If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you. -- Peter Rollins
It is not love to ignore your spouse's sin, or brokenness, or immaturity. -- John Eldredge
Thank you, but diamonds break easier than gold and people shine more through brokenness -- Samantha Boscarino
Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. -- Jalaja Bonheim
We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness. -- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you donâ??t know you have. -- Amy Neftzger
I think, at the end of the day, the real antagonist is the brokenness of humanity. -- lecrae
Your brokenness is not useless. God can always use your pain to rebuild a stronger you. -- Trent Shelton
Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it. -- Henri Nouwen
Bitterness about your parents' brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family. -- John Piper
There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents. -- Jan Karon
You shall love your neighbourWith your crooked heart,It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect. -- John Green
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness. -- Alice Sebold
To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension. -- Michael Card
And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. -- Christopher Poindexter
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more. -- Ursula Hegi
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? -- Veronica Roth
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls. -- Gary Bauer
Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make. -- Anne Jackson
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. -- Henri Nouwen
Activating our light and our full potential requires that we embrace our shadow. Realizing our wholeness requires us to become big enough to hold our brokenness. -- Derek Rydall
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. -- Marianne Williamson
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. -- Lawrence Kushner
...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. -- Anne Lamott
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. -- Marianne Williamson
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. -- Cathleen Falsani
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. -- Jason Gray
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. -- Bryan Stevenson
Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world. -- Daniel Mackler
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. -- Marianne Williamson
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. -- Heather Hart

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