Broken Quotes - Page 30

• Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Home, Rays, Widows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1935). “Young India, 1927-1928”

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• My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Taken, Promise, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “The Good Life”

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• Once you start altering your body's blueprint, things start falling apart. Some players take steroids, and two years later, after they've broken records, suddenly they have back problems, shoulder problems, arm problems. They're out of the game for good.

  Charlie Sheen

  Fall, Player, Years

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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• It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

  Max Lucado

  Heart, Tough Times, Important

  Source: www.biblestudytools.com

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• It is completely acceptable to be tired because it means you're working hard. But it's not acceptable to be stressed because that means things are going wrong or your head is broken.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Tired, Mean, Stressed

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• The immigration system is broken and it needs to be fixed. And it needs to be fixed comprehensively, because this country depends on immigrant workers, but we don't have a system that reflects that. Our system is absolutely antiquated.

  Pramila Jayapal

  Country, Immigration, Needs

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Not so great in England at the moment; in an online poll we came last, we actually came bottom of European countries for quality of life, because of things like the weather, obviously, late retirement, poor holiday, poor public services, poor health service; it's basically just a kind of grey, godless wilderness, full of cold pies and broken dreams.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Dream, Country

  "Bill Bailey: Dandelion Mind". Documentary, Comedy, 2010.

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• At first the kid kicking the back of my airplane seat was enraging. Then I imagined it was a broken massage chair and I kinda liked it.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Airplane, Humor

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• I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.

  Gerry Lindgren

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

  Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

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• Social change can be seen as a mosaic, taking that which is broken and creating something new.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Creating, Mosaics, Social

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The fact that we all have broken pasts is something that I'm very attracted to, along with being able to turn your life around and do good with it.

  Minka Kelly

  Past, Facts, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• . . . and God knows we are sensitive to the suffering that has sometimes broken loose to come billowing forth from your appendages like the pungent vapors of whales - often it appears that in this life of experience and accommodation we pay just as dearly for our triumphs as we do for our defeats. But Sissy . . . hold on!

  Jack London

  Life, Whales, Justice

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• You open your heart knowing that there's a chance it may be broken one day and in opening your heart, you experience a love and joy that you never dreamed possible.

  Bob Marley

  Love, Heart, Knowing

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• My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

  John Newton

  Heart, Break, Preaching

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• All laws that are proper and correct, and all obligations entered into which are not violative of the constitution should be kept inviolate. But if they are violative of the constitution, then the compact between the rulers and the ruled is broken and the obligation ceases to be binding.

  John Taylor

  Law, Constitution, Should

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• ..if the Northern states refuse, willfully and deliberately, to carry into effect that part of the Constitution which respects the restoration of fugitive slaves, and Congress provide no remedy, the South would no longer be bound to observe the compact. A bargain can not be broken on one side, and still bind the other side.

  Daniel Webster

  War, Restoration, Sides

  Henry Rootes Jackson, Joseph M. Brown, Daniel Webster (1891*). “The Wanderer Case: The Speech of Hon. Henry R. Jackson of Savannah, Ga”

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• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  William Morris

  Eye, Small Rooms, Design

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• You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

  John Eldredge

  Swim, Demand, Arms

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• 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

  Men, People, World

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

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• A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

  John Piper

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

  John Piper

  Believe, Mean, Heart

  John Piper (2012). “Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God”, p.1, Multnomah

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• Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.

  Henry Miller

  Hangover, People, Mind

  Henry Miller, Frank L. Kersnowski (1994). “Conversations with Henry Miller”, Univ Pr of Mississippi

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• The great barrier to worship among God's people is not that we are always seeking our own satisfaction, but that our seeking is so weak and half-hearted that we settle for little sips at broken cisterns when the fountain of life is just over the next hill.

  John Piper

  People, Half, Littles

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• The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Strong, Blow, Wind

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