Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it.

You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.

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.

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

I just hope people see that if God can do something beautiful with my broken pieces, then God truly has a plan for each and everyone of us.

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.

If any man be in Christ, he's a new preacher. The old things are passed away and all things become new.

Life labeled me, people gave up on me, and thought that there was no hope, but God takes the people who have been cast aside and look like trash. God's in the recycling business. He recycles that trash and brings forth treasure.

Christ gives peace to the most sinful and miserable that come to Him. He heals the broken in heart and binds up their wounds.

They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

You can grow flowers from where dirt use to be.

Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.