The Broken Way Quotes

“Who knows why God allows heartbreak, but the answer must be important enough because God allows His heart to break too.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“When the church isn't for the suffering and broken, then the church isn't for Christ. Because Jesus, with His pierced side, is always on the side of the broken.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Maybe grieving over plans changed is part of the plan to change us.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“MAYBE WHOLENESS IS EMBRACING BROKENNESS AS PART OF YOUR LIFE.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“The only way to live a truly remarkable life is not to get everyone to notice you, but to leave noticeable marks of His love everywhere you go.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“You are whatever you love. You are, at your very essence, not what you think, but what you love...We are all compelled not by what we believe is right, but by what we love the most. You are not driven by duties, you are not driven by doctrines; you are driven by what you ultimately desire - and maybe you don't actually really love whatever you think you love.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“You may believe in God, but never forget - it's God who believes in you. Every morning that the sun rises and you get to rise? That's God saying He believes in you, that He believes in the story He's writing through you. He believes in you as a gift the world needs.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“The world has enough women who know how to do their hair. It needs women who know how to do hard and holy things”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“What matters most is not if our love makes other people change, but that in loving, we change. What matters is that in the sacrificing to love someone, we become more like Someone. Regardless of anything or anyone else changing, the success of loving is in how we change because we kept on loving.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“You just . . . can’t be afraid of a broken heart.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“The brave baring of all the broken in their brokenness can offer the miracle of communion. Never be afraid of being a broken thing.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“No certain place can give you abundant life like a certain purpose can. Like purpose and meaning and connection can. I”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“A day is a pocket of possibility and it’s always there, waiting for your willing hand.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“I wonder if all the bad brokenness in the world begins with the act of forgetting - forgetting God is enough, forgetting what He gives is good enough, forgetting there's always more than enough and that we can live into an intimate communion. Forgetting is kin to fear.

Whenever I forget, fear walks in. We're called to be a people known by our remembering - a remembering people. Forget to give thanks - and you forget who God is. Forget to break and give - and it's your soul that gets broken. Forget to live into...communion - and you end up living into a union of emptiness.

If all our bad brokenness begins with an act of forgetting, then doesn't the act of remembering, then making Christ present by being broken and given, doesn't that lead to...communion, which literally re-members us?

Everything He embodied in the Last Supper - it is what would heal the body's brokenness. Brokenness can be healed in re-membering, Remembering our union, our communion...with Christ. Re-membering heals brokenness.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Love isn’t about how much money someone’s willing to lay down for you, but about how much life they’re willing to lay down for you.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“You are the most loved not when you’re pretending to have it all together; you are actually the most loved when you feel broken and falling apart.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“How can it be? When we're naked and ashamed and alone in our brokenness, Christ envelops us with His intimate grace. When we're rejected and abandoned and feel beyond wanting, Jesus cups our face: "Come close, my Beloved." When we're dirty and tear-stained and despairing, Jesus Christ is attracted to us and proposes undying love: "All that you're carrying I take... and all that I am is yours." How do you ever get over that?”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“The art of giving is believing there is enough love in you, that you are loved enough by Him, to be made enough love to give. For”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Be brave and do not pray for the hard thing to go away, but pray for a bravery that's bigger than the hard thing.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Blessed - lucky - are those who cry. Blessed are those who are sad, who mourn, who feel the loss of what they love - because they will be held by the One who loves them. There is a strange and aching happiness only the hurting know - for they shall be held.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“The hands of every clock never stop signing this: the best use of your hands is always love. The best way to say you love is always time. The best time to love is always now.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“When the church isn’t for the suffering and broken, then the church isn’t for Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“I’ll take it. I’ll take his words like a daring covenant, not knowing yet what’s to come: there is no growth without change, no change without surrender, no surrender without wound—no abundance without breaking. Wounds are what break open the soul to plant the seeds of a deeper growth.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“A willingness to be inconvenienced is the ultimate proof of love.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Activity for God—is not the same as intimacy with God or identity in God. And it is your intimacy with Christ that gives you your identity. You can’t experience the power of Christ, the mission of Christ, being made new in Christ, until you know who you are in Christ.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Let love break into you and mess with you and loosen you up and make you laugh and cry and give and hurt because this is the only way to really live.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“This is what I know right then: the world is brokenhearted and full of suffering, and if you listen to what life needs instead of what you need from it, you could fill the brokenness with your own brokenhearted love—and this will in turn fill you. What if you were not afraid?”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“It’s not that your heart isn’t going to break; it’s how you let the brokenness be made into abundance afterward.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life

“Our broken hearts always break His.”
― Ann Voskamp, The Broken Way: A Daring Path into the Abundant Life