"Who are we? We're not perfect but we're not worthless. Scripture tells us that we're beautifully made, but broken."
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"We shall draw nearer to God, not by trying to avoid the sufferings inherent in all loves, but by accepting them and offering them to Him; throwing away all defensive armour. If our hearts need to be broken, and if He chooses this as the way in which they should break, so be it."
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"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."
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"I dont want a broken heart because Ill lose the pieces."
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"For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!"
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"Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken."
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"In the firm expectation that when London shall be a habitation of bitterns, when St. Paul and Westminster Abbey shall stand shapeless and nameless ruins in the midst of an unpeopled marsh, when the piers of Waterloo Bridge shall become the nuclei of islets of reeds and osiers, and cast the jagged shadows of their broken arches on the solitary stream, some Transatlantic commentator will be weighing in the scales of some new and now unimagined system of criticism the respective merits of the Bells and the Fudges and their historians."
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"Someone called my character the Meg Ryan of the Broken Hearts bunch. Now maybe the perception is that I'm a Meg Ryan type."
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"All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart."
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"She has enough black eyeliner on to outline a corpse, and her skin's so pale she looks like she's just broken dawn."
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"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal."
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"Every relationship has problems but when those problems arise you have to realise that they don't mean your relationship is broken, it's just a little bent. Bent things can be fixed and like so your relationship can too. The first step however is realising that."
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"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."
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"The real work of social innovation is to fix our broken human systems."
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"Editing is where movies are made or broken. Many a film has been saved and many a film has been ruined in the editing room."
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"In the broken places, the light shines through."
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"I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me."
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"Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late."
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"Not by way of the forced and worn formula of Romaticism, but throught the closeness of an imagination that has never broken kinship with nature. Art must accept such gifts, and revaluate the giver."
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"I've done things to my body, mechanically, that I'll never do again. I've done stunts that I shouldn't have done 10, 11, 12 times. I've broken a ton of bones on sets."
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