Broken World Quotes:

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

- Ernest Hemingway

source: Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Strong Man, I Am Strong

We are broken people living in a broken world with other broken people. We all need grace.

- Tullian Tchividjian

source: Twitter post from Jan 03, 2015

topic: People, Broken, Grace, Broken World

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: "BOOKMARK: Terry Tempest Williams on the perspective of nature and healing". Interview with Laurie Hertzel, www.startribune.com. June 30, 2017.

topic: Creating, Broken, World, Creating Beauty, Broken World

We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.

- John Green

topic: Crazy, Reality, Broken, Broken World

No matter how bad your heart is broken, the world doesn't stop for your grief.

- Faraaz Kazi

source: FaceBook post by Faraaz Kazi from Sep 20, 2012

topic: Broken Heart, Grief, World, Love And Heartbreak, Break Your Heart

There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

- David Wolpe

topic: Children, Pain, Heart, Injustice In The World, God Has A Plan

Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

- John Eldredge

source: John Eldredge (2011). “Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul”, p.72, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Men, People, Broken, Broken World

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

- Mary Oliver

source: Mary Oliver (2008). “Red Bird: Poems”, p.28, Beacon Press

topic: Morning, Broken, World, Serious Things, Broken World

We live in a broken world full of broken people. But isn’t it comforting to know God isn’t ever broken? He isn’t ever caught off guard, taken by surprise, or shocked by what happens next.

- Lysa TerKeurst

source: FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Aug 30, 2016

topic: Taken, People, Broken, Shocked, Broken World

Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide. Love is a conversion to humanity — a willingness to participate with others in the healing of a broken world and broken lives. Love is the choice to experience life as a member of the human family, a partner in the dance of life.

- Carter Heyward

source: "Our Passion for Justice". Book by Carter Heyward, 1984.

topic: Healing, Love Life, Love Is, Conversion, Broken World

The Holy Spirit says: You are it. You are God's plan. In a thirsty world, people need to be refreshed. It is a broken world, and people need to be healed. Now get out there and do it!

- John Ortberg

topic: People, Broken, Needs, God's Plan, Broken World

I feel for the first time in my life that I have really come to understand what the gospel actually is. It is about a Father who lost His kids and He simply wants them back...I look forward to the day when we will see sons and daughers in their full expression and freedom, rising up out of every nation of the world, exhibiting and expressing the person, nature and works of our Father and walking like Jesus in this broken world.

- James Jordan

topic: Jesus, Father, Kids, Broken World

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

- Ann Voskamp

source: Source: www.hslda.org

topic: Jesus, Broken, Grace, Broken World

How do we create beauty in a broken world? How do we create a view of sustainability in an economy that is crashing? How do we reconfigure our lives, how do we pick up the pieces and create a meaningful life? So, yes, we have a different form of leadership but the questions remain the same.

- Terry Tempest Williams

source: Source: www.raintaxi.com

topic: Meaningful, Views, Broken, Broken World

It's the notion that there is no perfection - that there is a broken world and we live with broken hearts and broken lives but still there is no alibi for anything. On the contrary, you have to stand up and say hallelujah under those circumstances.

- Leonard Cohen

topic: Heart, Broken, Perfection, Hallelujah, Broken World

Rather, God has commissioned us as agents of intervention in the midst of a hostile and broken world.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Broken, Agents, World, Broken World

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Courage, Strong, People, Farewell To Arms, Broken World

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

- Aberjhani

topic: Healing, Wings, Broken, Broken World

Fiction and non-fiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons I do not fully understand, fiction dances out of me. Non-fiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

- Arundhati Roy

topic: Morning, Broken, Technique, Fiction And Nonfiction, Broken World

As participants in a mobile culture, our default is to move. God embraces our broken world, and I have no doubt that God can use our movement for good. But I am convinced that we lose something essential to our existence as creatures if we do not recognize our fundamental need for stability. Trees can be transplanted, often with magnificent results. But their default is to stay.

- Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

topic: Moving, Broken, Tree, Broken World

I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in a broken world or a broken me. I wasnt trying to weasel out of anything. I just wasnt in the mood of being on the earth that night. I get like that sometimes when it rains, or when i see certain sad movies.

- Donald Miller

source: Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.23, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Rain, Night, Self, Sad Movie, Broken World

Generally speaking we don't want to hear from the soul. We want it to just do its job. Unfortunately, in a broken world, it also is broken, and we're going to hear from it because many of the ordinary miseries and extraordinary glories of human life are expressions of the state of the soul.

- Dallas Willard

source: Source: renovare.org

topic: Jobs, Expression, Broken, Broken World

We try to bargain with God...I will follow you but don't touch my children, or my husband, don't give me cancer...We are afraid our surrender to God will unleash evil. But evil will come, because evil will come. We live in a broken world.

- Kay Warren

topic: Children, Husband, Cancer, Surrender To God, Broken World

Adoption is a redemptive response to tragedy that happens in this broken world.

- Katie Davis

source: Katie J. Davis, Beth Clark (2012). “Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption”, p.72, Simon and Schuster

topic: Broken, Adoption, Tragedy, Broken World

Jesus represents a point of common ground an esteemed rabbi to the Jew, a god to the Hindu, an enlightened one to the Buddhist, a great prophet to the Muslim. Even to the New Age guru, Jesus is the pinnacle of God-consciousness. At the same time, Jesus is the divider. None but Christians see Him as a member of the Godhead on an exclusive mission to repair the broken world.

- Philip Yancey

topic: Christian, Jesus, Buddhist, New Age, Broken World

There are ways in, journeys to the center of life, through time; through air, matter, dream and thought. The ways are not always mapped or charted, but sometimes being lost, if there is such a thing, is the sweetest place to be. And always, in this search, a person might find that she is already there, at the center of the world. It may be a broken world, but it is glorious nonetheless.

- Linda Hogan

topic: Dream, Journey, Air, Center Of The World, Broken World

The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered handful of doves or dust might be reunited by a word, that a paper rose consumed by fire could be made to bloom from a pile of ash. But everyone knew that it was only an illusion. The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

- Michael Chabon

topic: Dust, Fire, Broken, Reunited, Broken World

All is well. You did not come here to fix a broken world. The world is not broken. You came here to live a wonderful life. And if you can learn to relax a little and let it all in, you will begin to see the universe present you with all that you have asked for.

- Esther Hicks

topic: Broken, Relax, World, Broken World

Writers imagine that they cull stories from the world. I'm beginning to believe that vanity makes them think so. That it's actually the other way around. Stories cull writers from the world. Stories reveal themselves to us. The public narrative, the private narrative - they colonize us. They commission us. They insist on being told. Fiction and nonfiction are only different techniques of story telling. For reasons that I don't fully understand, fiction dances out of me, and nonfiction is wrenched out by the aching, broken world I wake up to every morning.

- Arundhati Roy

source: Source: logger.believermag.com

topic: Morning, Believe, Thinking, Fiction And Nonfiction, Broken World

And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love, its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice.

- Hart Crane

source: Hart Crane (1970). “The bridge: a poem”

topic: Voice, Wind, Long, Broken World

Unfulfilled dreams, ongoing relational tension, the loss of friendships, a hard marriage, rebellious teenagers, the death of loved ones, remaining sinful patterns - whatever it is for you - live long enough, lose enough, suffer enough, and the idealism of youth fades, leaving behind the reality of life in a broken world as a broken person.

- Tullian Tchividjian

topic: Dream, Teenager, Loss, Rebellious Teenagers, Reality Of Life

Herein find fiction full of whimsy, wit, hurt, and terror. Wicked, as in wickedly funny, is in the mix, too, along with a prose style both seductive and sly. Any one of Doug Watson's first collection of stories, The Era of Not Quite, can mend a broken world.

- Christine Schutt

topic: Hurt, Broken, Seductive, Whimsy, Broken World

Delicate, gracious, and eloquent, John Brandi's poems reveal that he remains an extraordinary profound poet of prayer and praise. His is the most honorable and heroic of ambitions - to dress our broken world in the clothes of language, trust, and hope.

- David St. John

topic: Prayer, Ambition, Clothes, Broken World