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Men Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of…
- Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
- In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated.…
- The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too…
- God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the…
- When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is…
- From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
- He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times…
- The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a…
- Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
- Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your…
- It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it didfor millions of…
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