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Best God Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
- 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…
- What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
- 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…
- Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were…
- 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…
- Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch…
- 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…
- . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having…
- Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
- And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths,…
- Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
- If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean…
- Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat…
- We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…
- 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…
- Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there…
- God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
- The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep need meet.
- There is no event so commonplace but that God is present within it, always hiddenly, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not recognize…
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