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One 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.
- When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one,…
- If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who…
- Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
- Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's…
- To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of…
- One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be…
- Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is…
- A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's…
- One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
- 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…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
- A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
- That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all…
- Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours…
- The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been…
- 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 One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle