Truth Quotes by Frederick Buechner

11 Truth quotes by Frederick Buechner

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Buechner’s gentle storytelling invites a quiet contemplation of honesty. Across eleven brief passages he highlights how truth can be found in the small, everyday moments that shape our lives.

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

Frederick Buechner

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“... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth…

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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

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And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth…

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I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored…

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He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded…

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Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about…

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Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.…

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“Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound turned…

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“Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own…

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“The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where…

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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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