“Day-to-day acts of service, whether for good or evil, may not seem important, but they are building cords of love that become so strong they can seldom be broken. Ours is to place our areas of love in proper perspective. Meaningful love always works for our eternal progress and not against it.” MayImportantSeemsEvilStrongProgressBuildingBrokenPerspectiveEternalAreasMeaningfulDay To DayCordsLove AlwaysActs Of Service Author:Marvin J. Ashton
“We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.” FirstsPastDoorsBuildingBrokenProudWindowEmptyPlatesRenewalNew DayGleamTilesEach New Day Book:I explain a few things: selected poems Source: I explain a few things: selected poems
“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.” PeopleMadeNightSexSoundAirMissingBuildingBrokenCouplePaperStrangerTinyFlyingBlockDesperateHotelStayingScreamGreySan FranciscoConditioningRemindingIcyDaggersAir Conditioning Author:Craig Stone
“The surest way to know our gold, is to look upon it and examine it in God's furnace, where he tries it that we may see what it is. If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it. If we would weigh ourselves justly we must weigh ourselves in God's scales that he makes use of to weigh us.” IfsKnowsWayTryingMindLooksMayUseStrongBuildingWindBrokenGoldWeightBlowScalesLook UpStaffRottenReedsFurnacesStand Strong Author:Jonathan Edwards
“But as the old Confusion of tongues was laudable, when men who were of one language in wickedness and impiety, even as some now venture to be, were building the Tower; for by the confusion of their language the unity of their intention was broken up, and their undertaking destroyed; so much more worthy of praise is the present miraculous one. For being poured from One Spirit upon many men, it brings them again into harmony. And there is a diversity of Gifts, which stands in need of yet another Gift to discern which is the best, where all are praiseworthy.” MenNeedsSpiritLanguageBuildingBrokenDiversityPraiseHarmonyIntentionUnityWorthyTongueConfusionDestroyedTowersVentureWickednessMiraculousUndertakingsBroken UpPraiseworthy Author:Gregory of Nazianzus
“It's rough to be mugged all the time, to have your place broken into all the time. You can buy a building for very little, but then the building has a fire and you have no money, so you have to fix it all yourself.” LittlesFireBuildingBrokenRoughNo Money Author:Francesca DiMattio
“Building new roads and bridges creates jobs. Growing our exports creates jobs. Reforming our outdated tax system and our broken immigration system creates jobs.” JobsGrowingBuildingBrokenTaxesImmigrationBridgesOutdatedTax SystemNew Roads Author:Barack Obama
“Only after people express their anger and sadness over the broken dreams of material prosperity will they turn to the task of building a sustainable economy.” PeopleDreamTurnsEconomySadnessBuildingMaterialsBrokenTasksProsperityBroken Dreams Author:Duane Elgin
“If our hearts and minds are not properly transformed, we are like musicians playing untuned instruments, or engineers working with broken and ill-programmed computers. The attunement of the heart is essential to the outflow of grace...We must aim at building the structures of God's kingdom but recognized that we will only create these through the transformation of our experience. Concentration on reformation without revival leads to skins without wine; concentration on revival without reformation soon loses the wine for want of skins.” IfsWantMindHeartLosesGraceBuildingBrokenEssentialsComputerMusicianSkinsTransformationAimInstrumentsWineStructureIllKingdomsConcentrationTransformedEngineersHeart And MindRevivalReformation Author:Richard Lovelace
“For example, when I was writing Leviathan, which was written both in New York and in Vermont - I think there were two summers in Vermont, in that house I wrote about in Winter Journal, that broken-down house... I was working in an out-building, a kind of shack, a tumble-down, broken-down mess of a place, and I had a green table. I just thought, "Well, is there a way to bring my life into the fiction I'm writing, will it make a difference?" And the fact is, it doesn't make any difference. It was a kind of experiment which couldn't fail.” ThinkingWayWritingWellsKindTwoFactsHouseDifferencesFictionFailingWrittenNew YorkExampleBuildingBrokenSummerTablesGreenWinterExperimentsMessMaking A DifferenceJournalBroken DownVermontShackLeviathan Author:Paul Auster
“As with most of my work, I started from the abstract, from research, building an intellectual model that slowly became internalized when the characters came alive. It's fascinating what happens to the model you've so assiduously assembled when characters are allowed to run rampant: things you thought essential are broken and other things are vastly improved.” CharacterHappensRunningAliveBuildingBrokenEssentialsIntellectualModelsResearchAbstractFascinating Author:Lauren Groff
“I'm not so interested in this series of ruptures, where minimalism took over pop art, and then neo-expressionism was a triumph over that. I'm not interested in rupture - I'm interested in healing, bringing things together, building bridges. Not dismissing what has come before as a kind of modernist precedent, where one thing has to be broken in order to achieve something else. I don't believe in that kind of attitude. I think we're beyond that at this stage.” ThinkingBelieveKindArtTogetherHealingAttitudeAchieveBuildingBrokenNot InterestedMinimalismPop Art Author:Philip Taaffe
“In the thousands of stories I've collected over the years there are people who just want to know that their story matters, that their story isn't beyond hope. And people, no matter how broken a story I might read, I have always found at least a glimpse of God's hand still at work in each and every story. I have been powerfully reminded that God is in the junkyard business. He willingly walks into the messiest parts of our lives, gets his hands dirty, and begins building something beautiful out of that very thing which the world might overlook as worthless.” PeopleWorldBeautifulBuildingBrokenDirtyWorthless Author:Matthew West
“They wanted to carry her, but she jumped to the stones of the plaza and strode away from the building, toward her ranks, which parted to make way for her. The streets of Pudong were filled with hungry and terrified refugees, and through them, in simple peasant clothes streaked with the blood of herself and of others, broken shackles dangling from her wrists, followed by her generals and ministers, walked the barbarian Princess with her book and her sword.” WayBookWantedSimpleBloodStreetsBuildingBrokenClothesStonesFilledHungryMinistersPrincessTerrifiedRefugeePeasantsWristsBarbariansShackles Book:The Diamond Age Source: The Diamond Age
“Christ is building His kingdom with earth's broken things. Men want only the strong, the successful, the victorious, the unbroken, in building their kingdoms; but God is the God of the unsuccessful, of those who have failed. Heaven is filling with earth's broken lives, and there is no bruised reed that Christ cannot take and restore to glorious blessedness and beauty. He can take the life crushed by pain or sorrow and make it into a harp whose music shall be all praise. He can lift earth's saddest failure up to heaven's glory.” MenWantInspirationalGodEarthPainJesusStrongHeavenChristSuccessfulStrengthBuildingFailureBrokenVictorySorrowGloryPraiseChristian InspirationalKingdomsLiftsGloriousFillingCrushedRestorationBrokennessSaddestUnbrokenReedsUnsuccessfulHarpsBruisedBlessednessPain And SorrowBroken Things Author:J.R. Miller