Oswald Chambers Quotes

I'd rather have a broken arm than a broken heart.

My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.

The heart was made to be broken.

After a certain point, a heart with so many stress fractures can never be anything but broken.

The most common way Jesus comes into our lives is through a broken heart.

I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.

Unto a broken heart No other one may go Without the high prerogative Itself hath suffered too.

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken.

There is no pain like the first time you get your heart broken.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

From the way that people have always talked about your heart being broken, it sort of seemed to be a one-time thing. Mine seemed to break all the time.

This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away.

When I knew I couldn't suffer another moment of pain, and tears fell on my bloody bindings, my mother spoke softly into my ear, encouraging me to go one more hour, one more day, one more week, reminding me of the rewards I would have if I carried on a little longer. In this way, she taught me how to endure — not just the physical trials of footbinding and childbearing but the more torturous pain of the heart, mind, and soul.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Love is the funeral of hearts.

I know what it's like to have a broken heart. I know what it's like to feel pain: When my songs don't become hits, it breaks my heart. There are a million ways to break a heart. I can relate.

Having your heart broken is like going through grief, it's really hard.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

bent like the branches of a tree broken like the pieces of my heart cracked like the seventeenth moon shattered like the glass in the window the day we met

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

the human heart clings - even to its pain.

Betty died of a broken heart. Some people laugh when they hear that phrase, but that's because they don't know anything about the world. People die of broken hearts. It happens every day, and it will go on happening to the end of time.