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From Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- 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…
- The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
- 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…
- The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life…
- To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of…
- The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
- All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
- From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
- Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light,…
- Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something…
- She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not…
- I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part…
- He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times…
- When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before…
- Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from…
- The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power…
- Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your…
- There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the…
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