Broken Quotes - Page 24

To allow myself to be loved by God in my deepest brokenness is to experience a love that defies human comprehension.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Death, the refuge, the solace, the best and kindliest and most prized friend and benefactor of the erring, the forsaken, the old and weary and broken of heart.

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted make-up.

Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg until it is broken.

One basic formula for understanding the Community is this: 'Take five broken empires, add the sixth one later, and make one big neo-colonial empire out of it all.'

Be sensitive to the needs of those around you. Live as a healer. Lift the fallen, restore the broken, and encourage the discouraged.

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

If you are called as a missionary—a “sent-out one”—then you are called to comfort those who mourn. You are called to love the broken until they understand God’s love—a love that never dies—through you.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

We are all differently broken, semi-functional, rusted out love machines

You’re going to leave me, aren’t you? … You’ve had enough of me, haven’t you? You’re probably so tired of all this crying and all these moods, and I’ve got to tell you, so am I. So am I. Sometimes it seems like my mind has a mind of its own, like I just get hysterical, like it’s something I can’t control at all. And I don’t know what to do, and I feel so sorry for you because you don’t know what to do either. And I’m sure you’re going to leave me now.

The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!

I used to have horrible cars that would always end up broken down on the highway. When I tried to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But if I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself - people like to see that.

The sigh, the groan of a broken heart, will soon go through the ceiling up to heaven, aye, into the very bosom of God.

To regard one's immortality as an exchange of matter is as strange as predicting the future of a violin case once the expensive violin it held has broken and lost its worth.

Everybody said, "Follow your heart". I did, it got broken

Reputation is like fine china: Once broken it's very hard to repair.

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.

Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers.

She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

Beneath every no lays a passion for yes that had never been broken.

It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. It is far more difficult--and far more precious--to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist.

Stalin and Mao killed over 80 million and did not make omelets despite the broken eggs.