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Human Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
- 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…
- In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen…
- Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
- Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly…
- 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…
- It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of…
- Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
- I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough…
- 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…
- Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and…
- You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on…
More Human Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings, which is interesting because with all the nature imagery, one… — Frederick Lenz
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and in the… — Clive Bell
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been… — Albert Einstein
- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche