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Most Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
- It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty…
- 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…
- The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the…
- Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about…
- Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light,…
- By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work…
- The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out…
- I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
- Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is a word from…
- Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in…
- 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…
- Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after,…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster