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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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How should Spring bring forth a garden on hard stone? Become earth, that you may grow flowers of many colors. For you…
— Rumi
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If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief…
— Clara Barton
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It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that,…
— Frederick Buechner
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When I write about "realizations," I am describing a state in which a practitioner has wisdom of who she or he is,…
— Russell Targ
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So now I know. I fear the unknown so deeply that I'd rather repeat the same heart-breaking pattern than face something or…
— Valerie Estelle Frankel
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know…
— A A Milne
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There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in…
— David Wolpe
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What do you think an artist is? ...he is a political being, constantly aware of the heart breaking, passionate, or delightful things…
— Pablo Picasso
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I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers and wonder why they're here. If…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I…
— Ellen Hopkins
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The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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The light is heart-breaking.
— Jenny Downham
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