Broken into Beautiful Quotes

“God has a special plan for your life. God’s gifts for you are the best gifts for you to possess. He fashioned you in His image and tenderly knit you in your mother’s womb. You are purposed to be a God-loving you.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“Hannah sought God’s heart, and He “remembered her.” He hears your prayers too. He cares about your struggles. He cares about your relationships. He loves you and wants you to pour out your soul to Him. When you call on the name of Jesus, all things are possible.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.” ZEPHANIAH 3:17”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“God can handle your anger, but be careful not to withhold your worship from Him. He is worthy in everything, whether He chooses to give or take away.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“God looks on the heart of each woman. When you get serious with God—when you get real honest and pour out your soul to Him—He will faithfully replace your empty with the fullness of His peace, whether he removes your burdens or allows them to remain. Don’t doubt it for a minute, friend. “All things are possible with God” (Mark 10:27).”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“My friend, we need to stop beating ourselves up for sins of our past. We need to stop allowing guilt and shame to chain us to unproductive living. Jesus humbled Himself by becoming human, endured an excruciating death, and then defied the grave in His resurrection so that we could be restored to a place of complete healing. Complete healing.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“God loves us perfectly. The greatest call in our lives is to love God in return. Our life song should be a love song.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“A certain medieval monk announced he would be preaching the next Sunday evening on “The Love of God.” As the shadows fell and the light faded from the cathedral windows, the congregation gathered. In the darkness, the monk lit a candle and carried it to the crucifix. First, he illuminated the crown of thorns; next, the two wounded hands; then the spear wound; and finally the feet. In the hush that fell, he blew out the candle and left the chancel. There was nothing else to say.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“Have you thought about the pleasure God experiences when you simply approach Him just as you are, warts and all, because He loves you? He delights in your attention. He takes pleasure when you go to Him simply because you are His.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“Healing begins when we hold tightly to the truth of God and allow the truth of God to hold tightly to us.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.                 (ISAIAH 58:11)”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“When we are wrongfully accused, you and I should respond with honesty and humility as Hannah did.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“Sometimes we are brought through a trial by God. At other times, we are brought to God through a trial.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“When you invite God into your circumstances, He will faithfully respond to your needs as well.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“if God does not have the proper place in your life, your soul will remain hungry.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“There is no condemnation for those in Christ. While the enemy loves to cast false guilt, our Lord loves to extend grace and forgiveness, which is the remedy that restores all our broken pieces. Don’t hold onto those pieces. Don’t hide them behind a plastic smile. Bring them into the light, lay them at the feet of Jesus, and let go. Then stand back and watch the wonder of grace at work as God creates something beautiful in you.   “Broken into Beautiful” Gwen Smith, Sue Smith, Chad Cates She’s smiling on the outside, But she’s hurting on the inside. It’s getting hard just living anymore.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“God can use each and every person who surrenders her brokenness into His hands…no matter what. That is what the good news of Jesus is all about!”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“Friend, accept God’s gift of grace today. He wants so badly to give it to you. It’s free, but it was bought at a very high price. It is extravagant. Unwrap it. Embrace it. Live with it.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“God has written His restoring, unconditional love into every broken paragraph of every broken chapter of who I am.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart

“I’ve spent most of my life hiding behind a smile. You know that saying, “My life is an open book”? Well, it never really applied to me. My life has been more of a partially opened book. While I’ve shared satisfying successes, tear-filled trials, and entertaining experiences over the years, I’ve kept most of the shadier happenings of my life under wraps in a prideful attempt to save face.”
― Gwen Smith, Broken into Beautiful: How God Restores the Wounded Heart