#shatter

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible. ↗

— Jacques Ellul

#fragments #history #holds #makes #possible

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. ↗

— George W. Bush

#america #american #attacks #biggest #buildings

Once the violence has ceased, the US should immediately call on the World Bank and other international institutions to convene a donors conference to rebuild Lebanon's shattered infrastructure. ↗

— John Conyers

#call #ceased #conference #donors #immediately

I am excited to have a black president because white supremacy is real and it needs to be shattered. ↗

— Cornel West

#because #black #excited #i #i am

The eye turned to the fire gave back no light and he closed it with his thumb and sat by her and put his hand upon her bloodied forehead and closed his own eyes that he could see her running in the mountains, running in the starlight where the grass was wet and the sun's coming as yet had not undone the rich matrix of creatures passed in the night before her. Deer and hare and dove and groundvole all richly empaneled on the air for her delight, all nations of the possible world ordained by God of which she was one among and not separate from. Where she ran the cries of the coyotes clapped shut as if a door had closed upon them and all was fear and marvel. He took up her stiff head out of the leaves and held it or he reached to hold what cannot be held, what already ran among the mountains at once terrible and of great beauty, like flowers that feed on flesh. What blood and bone are made of but can themselves not make on any altar nor by any wound of war. What we may well believe has power to cut and shape and hollow out the dark form of the world surely if wind can, if rain can. But which cannot be held never be held and is no flower but is swift and a huntress and the wind itself is in terror of it and the world cannot lose it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#earth-shattering #melancholy #beauty

See, if you analyze stuff long enough, you’ll eventually break ideas down to the quantum level where nothing makes sense and there’s no longer any meaning to anything. And then when you try to put it all back together again, you realize the pieces just don’t fit anymore. Worse, you realize that the pieces never fit in the first place. And then you’re left with a heap of broken ideas and beliefs that are shattered beyond repair. That’s reality, and that’s what I write about. ↗

— P.S. Baber

#fragmented #life #shattered #life

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose. ↗

— David James Elliott

#i #i remember #jackson #jag #joe

Broken Heart: Not only Heart breaks but the whole body shatters... ↗

— Depain Khatrrii

#broken-heart #heart #love #quote #quotes

The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide. ↗

— Larry Crabb

#shattered-dreams #dreams

To liberate words means first to shatter their function as vehicles of idea, memory, hope, or regret. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#function #hope #idea #liberate #means