Shattered Dreams Quotes

• God is always working to make His children aware of a dream that remains alive beneath the rubble of every shattered dream, a new dream that when realized will release a new song, sung with tears, till God wipes them away and we sing with nothing but joy in our hearts.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Song, Children

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.82, WaterBrook

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• Shattered dreams are never random. They are always a piece in a larger puzzle, a chapter in a larger story. The Holy Spirit uses the pain of shattered dreams to help us discover our desire for God, to help us begin dreaming the highest dream. They are ordained opportunities for the Spirit to awaken, then to satisfy our highest dream.

  Larry Crabb

  Dream, Pain, Opportunity

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• Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.

  Stevie Wonder

  Dream, Sadness, Years

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• Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.

  Robert Kennedy

  Dream, Honor, Swagger

  Robert F. Kennedy's Speech On the Mindless Menace of Violence at the City Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, www.jfklibrary.org. April 5, 1968.

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• I testify to you today that turning away from God brings broken covenants, shattered dreams, and crushed hopes. Such a quagmire of quicksand I plead with you to avoid. You are of a noble birthright. Eternal life in the kingdom of our Father is your goal.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Father, Broken

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• I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own.

  Eric Ludy

  Dream, Fall, Waiting

  Eric Ludy, Leslie Ludy (2009). “When Dreams Come True: A Love Story Only God Could Write”, p.21, Multnomah

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• The problem sincere Christians have with God often comes down to a wrong understanding of what this life is meant to provide.

  Larry Crabb

  Christian, Understanding, Problem

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.31, WaterBrook

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• We cannot count on God to arrange what happens in our lives in ways that will make us feel good.We can, however, count on God to patiently remove all the obstacles to our enjoyment of Him. He is committed to our joy, and we can depend on Him to give us enough of a taste of that joy and enough hope that the best is still ahead to keep us going in spite of how much pain continues to plague our hearts.

  Larry Crabb

  Pain, Heart, Giving

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• Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Dream, Blessing, Opportunity

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• All connections are infused with dreams of what is possible in the future. Thus, when we lose something or someone important to us, we aren't just grieving the loss, we are grieving the shattered dream.

  Bill Crawford

  Dream, Loss, Grieving

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• STARING INTO THE ABYSS by Richard Thomas is an outstanding book, a grim tapestry of broken lives and shattered dreams, of dark fantasies and dark reflections. It's one of the better single-author collections I've had the pleasure to read in recent years, and as such, gets my highest recommendation. It's also a fine testament to a talent I suspect we are going to be hearing a lot more from, and soon.

  Kealan Patrick Burke

  Dream, Book, Dark

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• Don't thank your parents. If you were raised in a nurturing environment, you wouldn't be in show business. Don't say, 'Wow, this is heavy.' Of course it's heavy. It contains the shattered dreams of four other people.

  Conan O'Brien

  Dream, People, Parent

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