Broken Quotes - Page 18

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.

Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.

Hard words indeed break no bones, but many a heart has been broken by them.

Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

What does this world need: gifted men and women, outwardly empowered? Or individuals who are broken, inwardly transformed?

I wept bitterly, surrendering momentarily to my fear and heartbroken confusion, but slowly I began to quiet a bit, as Jamie stroked my neck and back, offering me the comfort of his broad, warm chest. My sobs lessened and I began to calm myself, leaning tiredly into the curve of his shoulder. No wonder he was so good with horses, I thought blearily, feeling his fingers rubbing gently behind my ears, listening to the soothing, incomprehensible speech. If I were a horse, I'd let him ride me anywhere.

You existed. You existed now as a fractal. Definition: A fractal is generally a rough or fragmented geometric shape that can be broken into parts, each of which is (at least approximately) a reduced-size copy of the whole. Maybe I was a fractal. Maybe the photographer was a fractal. Maybe we were all fractals.

I screwed her over. I didn't want to see her screwed over by someone else.

The planetary etheric body is a whole, unbroken and continuous; of this etheric body, those of the healer and the patient are integral, intrinsic parts.

The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.

But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.

Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved.

God really does have a plan for every child that He knits together, even when they look broken to the world outside, when their story is broken, when their hearts are broken, when their bodies are broken. God still knit this child together with a plan.

Crystals reveal their hidden structures only when broken.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential.

The Eastern front is like a house of cards. If the front is broken through at one point all the rest will collapse.

And I have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things.

When we lay the soil of our hard lives open to the rain of grace and let joy penetrate our cracked and dry places, let joy soak into our broken skin and deep crevices, life grows. How can this not be the best thing for the world? For us?

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.

When the voice of truth rises from the minarets, the Buddha smiles, and the broken chain of history reconnects.