Alan Paton Quotes

I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

Say a piece of pottery is broken, and it's fixed, and they use gold in the adhesive and in the sealant. It becomes more precious than it was before it was broken in the first place.

Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

When something is so damaged or something is just not right, you can't fix it in a moment. The only thing is time.

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

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

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

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.

Maybe it needed to be broken. Sometimes things have to break before you can fix them.

If it's broken, it can be fixed.

You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole.

All of my creation is an effort to weave a web of connection with the world: I am always weaving it because it was once broken.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

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.

I was tired of hanging on, taking the torn pieces to make something whole with them.

Every time we fix something that broken, whether it's a car engine or a broken heart, that an act of magic. And what makes it magic is that we choose to create or help, just as we can choose to harm.

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

God is a specialist at making something useful and beautiful out of something broken and confused.

Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.