Frederick Buechner quotes - page 2

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last. (Frederick Buechner)
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough. View quote
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. View quote
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Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. View quote
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking. View quote
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. View quote
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There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die? View quote
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Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. View quote
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Five friends I had, and two of them snakes. View quote
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed. View quote
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell. (Frederick Buechner)
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. View quote
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. View quote
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To be wise is to be eternally curious. View quote
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. View quote
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. View quote
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Go where your best prayers take you. View quote
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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last. View quote
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We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously. View quote
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all. View quote
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I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human. (Frederick Buechner)
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. View quote
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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God. View quote
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me. View quote
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary. View quote
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