Kevin DeYoung Quotes

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

All of history is a kind of broken marriage and God puts it back together again.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God - and that makes the difference.

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

I have loved Jesus my whole life, and it has been such a privilege for me. To be able to marry my work and God together has been such a blessing.

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Oh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart's blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.

I think that God kind of put me in the place in my life to not be quiet about it, not be quiet about Him, but to reach people and to inspire people.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen away, and to bring home those who have lost their way. Many who seem to us to be children of the Devil will still become Christ's disciples.

‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

God's purpose in redemption is to make worshipers out of rebels.

But where are you going to, Helen? Can you see? Do you know?-I believe; I have faith: I am going to God.-Where is God? What is God?-My maker and yours, who will never destroy what He created. I rely implicitly on His power, and confide wholly in His goodness: I count the hours till that eventful one arrives which shall restore me to Him, reveal Him to me.