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Only Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
- When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is…
- All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
- 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…
- Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something…
- The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things…
- 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…
- Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
- She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not…
- We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have…
- I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough…
- To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even…
- My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- 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…
- And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths,…
- For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only…
- Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you,…
- 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,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello