#brokenness

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

#inspirational #renewal #suffering #inspirational

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ↗

— Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

#growth #hurts #inspirational #wounded #inspirational

I'm not like a car you can fix up. I'm never gonna run right" Bella ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#brokenness #lost-love #love

...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood...God wanted a broken vessel. ↗

— Gene Edwards

#christianity #men

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ↗

— Rumi

#healing #scars #suffering #broken

A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#human-soul #humanity #incense #soul #beauty

A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world... ↗

— Alice Walker

#brokenness #heart #love #love

David was caught in a very uncomfortable position; however, he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few of even the wisest men of his day understood. Something that in our day, when men are wiser still, even fewer understand. And what was that? God did not have - but wanted very much to have - men and women who would live in pain. God wanted a broken vessel. ↗

— Gene Edwards

#men

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again. ↗

— Bo Sanchez

#healing #life

Our society is so fragmented, our family lives so sundered by physical and emotional distance, our friendships so sporadic, our intimacies so 'in-between' things and often so utilitarian, that there are few places where we can feel truly safe. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#brokenness #despair #isolation #loneliness #society