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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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To excuse what can really produce good excuses is not Christian charity; it is only fairness. To be a Christian means to…
— C.S. Lewis
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The saints show us that being a baptized Christian means living as a new creation, rejoicing in a life radically different from…
— Stephen J. Binz
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You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one…
— Jodi Picoult
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Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way.
— Pope Francis
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Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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The word 'christian' means different things to different people. To one person it means a stiff, upright, inflexible way of life, colorless…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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I once read in a Bible commentary that the word "Christian" means "little Christs." What an honor to share Christ's name! We…
— Joni Eareckson Tada
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I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and…
— Sherri Shepherd
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
— C.S. Lewis
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Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to…
— Frederick Buechner
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Being a strong Christian means standing on the Word of God, no matter what
— Creflo Dollar
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