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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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Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all.
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…
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The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!
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As I watched my grandfather work with people who were impoverished, I began to understand that to be truly human, one must…
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These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy…
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By all means rid yourself of an impoverished faith.
— George MacDonald
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at…
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