Frederick Buechner Quotes

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• Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can…
• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been…
• It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of…
• Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
• Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words…
• When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one,…
• We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
• Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
• In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
• True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
• You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his…
• We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close…
• Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
• Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy…
• The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
• We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other.…
• Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open,…
• My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will…
• To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
• In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen…

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