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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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The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel…
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As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man…
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The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its…
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He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can....
— Alice Cary
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Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.
— Seneca the Younger
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To be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages.
— Susan B. Anthony
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All the unhallowed beauty I have found; All free - discordant shrills and form-defying wonders above ground, like writhen trees with draggled…
— Unknown Author
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Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
— Fanny Kemble
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Of all God's gifts to the sighted man, color is holiest, the most divine, the most solemn.
— John Ruskin
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For over seven years the United States has been occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of places, the Arabian Peninsula,…
— Osama bin Laden
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I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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