You shall love your neighbour With your crooked heart, It says so much about love and brokenness -- it's perfect.
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.
If you cannot speak your brokenness, your brokenness will speak for you.
To transform experience and thought into language and narrative - that is beautiful even if that beauty is in brokenness.
Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.
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?
Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
What the river was showing her now was that she could flow beyond the brokenness, redeem herself, and fuse once more.
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 God’s requirement for maximum usefulness.
To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.
His love for my mother wasn't about looking back and loving something that would never change. It was about loving my mother for everything -- for her brokenness and her fleeing, for her being there right then in that moment before the sun rose and the hospital staff came in. It was about touching that hair with the side of his fingertip, and knowing yet plumbing fearlessly the depths of her ocean eyes.
Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.
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.
The worst kind of brokenness is the kind that you don’t know you have.
She plays music to heal herself, but nothing can heal her brokenness.
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.
To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.
I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.