“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
Bob Pierce (1914–1978) American evangelical charity founder
“The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.”
— Oscar Wilde, book De Profundis
Source: De Profundis
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