183 Quotes About Brokenness

It certainly is a puzzle.” He turned back to the broken road. “But sometimes to find the answer, you have to take a leap of faith.

I needed to stop fighting my own broken heart. It was all right that I was broken, and I could settle there, stop punishing myself for it. I needed to just survive like that, -broken-. That's what I was. I needed to let it be, all of it, all broken, broken for all time.

Embracing our brokenness creates a need and a desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy.

Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen, or were in a glorified state, then the strong torrents of Divine joy would be the normal force to open up all our souls' capacities; but in a fallen world, sorrow, with despair taken out of it, is the chosen power to reveal ourselves to ourselves. Hence it is sorrow that makes us think deeply, long, and soberly.

A broken trust is like a broken mirror. You can't put the pieces together again.

The deepest wounds of the soul are healed only by compassion... People do not merely need to be clothed, they need to be embraced with love. A love that enters into their own fears and frailty, a love that suffers with them and stays with them through their darkest hour.

In the contorted bookkeeping of the broken, the distance you hold yourself away from them is your only value.

Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.

In the end, that was what hurt me the most, because when love becomes impossible, we have only one alternative. Love in silence. Cry in silence. In secret.