Prayer Quotes by Frederick Buechner

12 Prayer quotes by Frederick Buechner

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Buechner’s prayers read like miniature stories, each one a vignette of grace. This twelve‑piece set offers a literary flavor to contemplation.

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Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

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Go where your best prayers take you.

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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we…

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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…

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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately…

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“So ever and again young Godric’s dreams well up to flood old Godric’s prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such…

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My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're…

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In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not…

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Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is…

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What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand…

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“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,…

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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark…

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I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could…

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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

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“The things that the world fills time with are enough to turn the heart to stone, but the goodness of time itself is as…

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The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

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“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in…

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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.

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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of…

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“How Adewen stuffed her braid in her mouth at that! Or she'd cover her mirth with her hands and shake till you'd think that…

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Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

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