“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder
“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.”
Source: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
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"When I Think Of My People Broken Down", as translated in "The Poetry of Sri Lanka", in Journal of South Asian Literature, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 1976), published by Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, p. 11
Context: Unbearable becomes the pain in my heart —
When I think of my people, broken down,
broken by disease in mind and limb. On the edge of life they always linger;
For countless are the diseases
Of Ignorance and Hunger. And on treacherous paths to Slavery
like children blind, they would walk behind
strangers from over the sea. O, divine Land, blessed by the gods!
O, ancient Mother of Culture and Art!
Thy children today are spineless hordes.
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
