Quotes about Breakdown

One of the major problems leading to the breakdown of society is that we have far too many opinions dictating life choices and not enough truth mandating them.

Trust is maintained when values and beliefs are actively managed. If companies do not actively work to keep clarity, discipline and consistency in balance, then trust starts to break down.

Feeling the pain is the first step toward healing the pain. The longer we avoid the feeling, the more we delay our healing. We can numb it, ignore it, or pretend it doesn't exist, but all those options lead to an eventual breakdown, not a breakthrough.

which is a fancy way of saying that nature tends to bring things to disorder.

Change only comes through breakdown or revolution.

Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.

Families start to break down—and marriages often break down, for that matter—when we stop enjoying each other.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

What you must trust in these moments is that anything God breaks down is intended to build you up.

There's a problem with the hierarchical orientation, though. When the numbers get too big, the thing breaks down. A pecking order can hold only so many chickens.

The costs of marriage breakdown are borne by the entire society, and therefore it is reasonable for the entire society to demand support for marriage - to insist that it is privileged both culturally and legally.

Alas, that we should love by measure and weight, and not rather have floods and feasts of Christ's love! O, that Christ would break down the old narrow vessels of these narrow and ebb souls, and make fair, deep, wide, and broad souls, to hold a sea and a full tide, flowing over all its banks of Christ's love.