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May Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be…
- I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why…
- In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound…
- To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between…
- People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget…
- When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I…
- . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having…
- Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those…
- Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle