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God Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- 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…
- 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,…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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 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…
- 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 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
- Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not…
- There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not…
- A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the…
- 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…
- One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
- They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for…
- To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to…
- The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
- By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work…
More God Quotes
- Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for… — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. — Francis of Assisi