“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“There are times to listen to the people that believe in you during those days you don't believe in yourself. Sometimes you look in the mirror and it's fogged up; the person looking back a blurred image, but those folks that know you and love you see the real you. Sometimes you have to trust the ones that are there for you in your darkest times to find out how much light exists in you. God bless you.”
― Lee Goff

“The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses though now broken, will nevertheless hold something of the fragrance it once contained.”
― A.W. Tozer, The Attributes of God: A Journey Into the Father's Heart

“A child's cry touches a father's heart, and our King is the Father of his people. If we can do no more than cry it will bring omnipotence to our aid. A cry is the native language of a spiritually needy soul; it has done with fine phrases and long orations, and it takes to sobs and moans; and so, indeed, it grasps the most potent of all weapons, for heaven always yields to such artillery.”
― Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David: Spurgeon's Classic Work on the Psalms

“You weren't supposed to pick up the rocks, but sea glass wasn't natural. It was man-made, improved by nature, a reminder that anything can be broken. All rough edges made smooth.
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― Erica Bauermeister, No Two Persons

“God can carry on his own work, though all such poor tools as I were broken.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“I believe a man’s finest hour often comes when he is at his weakest. When he is broken, affronted and at a place of great emotional transparency. It’s there he has the rare insight of an inescapable truth…he’s merely a man. As his bravado washes away into a puddle of reflective tears, it reveals that he is merely flesh, blood and bones and amounts to very little without the love and guidance of our creator. It’s only then, that I believe, a man begins to truly find his way. ~Jason Versey”
― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence

“The world is broken he said, how will you fix it?

I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Man is broken down in many places because of bitterness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Brokenness a result of bitterness.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“If you sing a song, any brokenness shall heal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Bitterness is a broken spirit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“The Bible contains many stories of dysfunctional heroes because its purpose is to show us our exceptional God, a God of love and grace and power; who works through people who have limitations - just like we do. These stories help us develop a vocabulary to identify and describe the reality of brokenness in our own lives.”
― James C. Wilhoit, Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered: Growing in Christ through Community

“It is essential for us all to realize that admitting to brokenness is not to doubt the healing and restoring grace of God. Rather, the brokenness needs to call us to a dynamic discipleship, which grows through faith beyond the mere acknowledgment that brokenness is all that we can expect from life.”
― James C. Wilhoit, Spiritual Formation as if the Church Mattered: Growing in Christ through Community

“There is drinking and smoking behind all the poverty problems.”
― Brad Kong, Introduction to UnBrokable*: Two out of 80 Reasons Why Being Broke Despite Working Hard