Frederick Buechner Quotes

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• Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
• Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
• To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss…
• If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
• It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really…
• The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly…
• In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.…
• If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who…
• The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too…
• In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with…
• It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty…
• Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is…
• And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left…
• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and…
• God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the…
• Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
• In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will…
• Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

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