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"In one respect at least a man is like a horse. He's not really of much practical use until he's broken...A wild horse out on the mesa may be thrilling to watch...but he never carries a rider or pulls a load. All his energy, strength, speed and beauty are WASTED...UNTIL HE IS BROKEN.

A man is that way too. He may be quite exciting and attractive when wild and untamed...but he doesn't pull a load! He needs to be BROKEN FOR HARNESS! He may hold great promise: purebred pedigree, intelligence, strength, drive...but until he is broken, all these qualities are dissipated."
--Richard Halverson

"Do you know the trouble with the average Christian? He is only broken on one side. He will do this, but he will not do that. He will go here, but he will not go there. He will sing in the choir-if he can sing the solos. He will work in the foreign field, but he refuses to work in the home field. He still wants his own way. God wants us to be broken-absolutely and unconditionally."
--Oswald J. Smith

"It is doubtful whether God can greatly use a man until He has deeply hurt him." --A.W. Tozer

"Success and suffering are vitally and organically linked. If you succeed without suffering, it is because someone else has suffered before you; if you suffer without succeeding, it is that someone else may succeed after you."
--Edward Judson

"It's the defeat more than anything else that hurts you! Defeat is always the hardest thing for you to stand, even in trifles. But don't you know that we have to be defeated in order to succeed? Most spend half our lives fighting for things that would only destroy us if we got them. A man who has never been defeated is usually a man who has been ruined."
--J.L. Allen

THE FRAGRANCE

The scent of precious ointment--how it lingered
Long after all the guests had gone away;
And Mary's hands, how sweet where she had touched it,
The alabaster box she brought that day.

It filled the empty room with love's annointing,
Reached to the neighbors on the busy street
And ministered in many deeds of kindness
To friend and stranger whom she chanced to meet.

In every task she found the fragrance with her--
The pitcher that she carried bore the scent,
The coins exchanged for food within the market--
She took the blessing everywhere she went.

The box, UNBROKEN, could have kept its treasure
And pleased the fancy of a dinner guest;
But Mary broke the box, and IN THE BREAKING
Her Lord, and all the world beside were blest.
---Rugh Gibbs Zwall

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