Quotes

Wisdom from Broken Toys

Words to carry with you. Let them do their work.

Surrender

Daughter, why do you keep bringing all these broken toys home for Me to fix?
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Surrender

You cannot fix a broken toy. Only God can do that, and He does not need your assistance.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Surrender

I love you, but I am handing you back to the Master Craftsman.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Surrender

The broken toy God is trying to fix is me.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Identity & Worth

What you feel for him is not love. It is fear dressed up in loyalty.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Identity & Worth

You must stop focusing on finding the right person and start focusing on becoming the right person.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Identity & Worth

God does not look at the cracked, the compromised, the used, and the wounded and decide they are beyond repair. He gathers them up.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Waiting

Time is the one asset in this life that, once it is gone, it is gone forever.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Waiting

Delay is not denial.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Waiting

Waiting is not punishment. It is preparation.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Waiting

The wait is not wasted time. The wait is the work.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Waiting

I will praise in the pause. Because waiting is not weakness. It is worship.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Freedom

That locked door is not protecting you from God. It is protecting your pain from the only One who has the power to heal it.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Freedom

God will stretch you. He will challenge you. He will ask things of you that your flesh will resist with everything it has. Still, He will not break you.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys

Freedom

Only the Potter can fix the clay.
— D.L. Augustine, Broken Toys