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SPIRITUAL BROKENNESS

From the book "The Fingerprints of Providence"
by Pastor David M. Atkinson

"The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth them out of them all." Psalm 34:18-19

"... both Dr. F.B. Meyer and his friend came down and came out to the station on the train and walked up to Moriah Church...While they were in the meeting Evan Roberts came in and the place was crammed up, and Evan rose now as if he was going to speak. But instead of speaking he broke down to cry, and he wept in the pulpit. So Dr. F.B. Meyer's friend gave him a poke and said, "I told you, that's just the Welsh people. "NO" said Dr. Meyer, "I have been in ministry for so many years and I knew there was something missing in my ministry and that man has it. THAT MAN HAS BEEN BROKEN BY GOD AND I HAVE NEVER BEEN BROKEN." (From a radio transcript with a Mr. Jones, an 86- year- old participant in the 1904 Welsh Revival.)

"The flowers smell sweetest after a shower; vines bear the better for bleeding; the walnut-tree is most fruitful when most beaten; saints spring and thrive most internally when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue. Manasseh's chain was more profitable to him than his crown."
--Thomas Brooks.

"God is a jealous pruner,
For He knows-
Who, falsely tender, spares the knife
But spoils the rose."
--Joyn Oxenham

"the difficulties of life are intended to make us better-not bitter."
"As the wicked are hurt by the best things, so the godly are bettered by the worst." --William Jenkyn

"If you have won the right to know how to lose, your entire ministry will be wrapped up in making winners out of losers>'
"Broken vessels reveal their contents." --James O. Phillips

"It is God's way to set people aside after their first start that self-confidence may die down. Thus Moses was forty years on the back side of a desert. On his first start he had to run away. Paul was three years also, in a desert, after his first testimony. Not that God did not approve the first earnest testimony. We must get to know ourselves and that we have no strength. Thus we must learn, and then leaning on the Lord we can with more maturity, and more experientially, deal with souls."
--John Darby

"Had it not been for the broken wing, some might have lost themselves in the clouds, some even of these choice doves who now bear the olive branch in their mouths and show the way to the ark."
--Charles H. Spurgeon

"There was no part of…holiness, that I had so great a sense of its loveliness, as…brokenness of heart and poverty of spirit; and there was nothing that I so earnestly longed for."
---Jonathan Edwards

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