#brokenness

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"To be unbroken, what would that be?If words that were spoken, had not shattered me"

"God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever."

"And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness."

"A broken soul is not the absence of beauty, but a cracked and torn soul reeks of the sweet incense it contains."

"You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too."