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Frederick Buechner has 172 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
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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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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…
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When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan.
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Once I turned pro, so to speak, I put away childish things forever.
— Glenn Gould
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Sometimes I wish Marta were more loyal to me. Like the other day. The car parked next to ours had a real…
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
— Frederick Buechner
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I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
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I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go…
— Ben Fountain
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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as…
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Those who tread 'adult' as a term of approval cannot hope to be considered adult themselves. When I became a man I…
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We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time…
— Barack Obama
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When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so.…
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When I was a child, I thought as a child. But now I have put away childish things. ... I must be…
— Philip K. Dick
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Childhood is not from birth to a certain age and at a certain age. The child is grown, and puts away childish…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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