Tag Archives: Brokenness
The Beginning of Revival
To be broken is the beginning of revival. It is painful, it is humiliating, but it is the only way.
What Happens When We Are Broken
Until we are broken, our life will be self-centered, self-reliant; our strength will be our own. So long as you think you are really something in and of yourself, what will you need God for? I don’t trust a man who hasn’t suffered.
The Essential Quality of Spiritual Leadership
The first and essential quality of a herald of the Gospel is ever a thorough broken and contrite heart for it is only after having obtained mercy as guilty criminals, that we are in a position to ‘strengthen the brethren.’
The Terrible Secret of Leadership
This is the terrible secret about leadership and life: we achieve brokenness by falling off our throne. To be broken is not a choice; it is a gift. I don’t know anyone who has made the decision to be broken and achieved it as an act of the will.
Brokenness Drives the Church
Brokenness is … the jewel of worship that is intended to drive the church…. In order to truly worship God you need to have a broken and contrite heart.
Fred A. Hartley III in K. Neill Foster & Douglas B. Wicks, eds., Voices on the Cross, pp. 57-58
Brokenness before God
To be broken means to have no rights before God and man. It does not mean merely surrendering my rights to Him but recognizing that I haven’t any except to deserve hell.
Roy Hession, The Calvary Road, p. 48
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