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Frederick Buechner has 172 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge…
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to…
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no…
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of…
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems…
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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Suicide is the means of men whose resilience has been eaten away by rust, the rust of the daily round. They were…
— Unknown Author
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The self cannot be self without other selves.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I" cannot reach fulfillment without "thou." The self cannot be self without other selves. Self-concern without other-concern is like a tributary that…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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No more photos. Surely there are enough. No more shadows of myself thrown by light onto pieces of paper, onto squares of…
— Margaret Atwood
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The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead…
— Frederick Buechner
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If literature has engaged me as a project, first as a reader, then as a writer, it is as an extension of…
— Susan Sontag
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To become fully human means learning to turn my gratitude for being alive into some concrete common good. It means growing gentler…
— Brené Brown
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Remember,too,that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start,and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive". The turning…
— Napoleon Hill
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In the ongoing celebration that is literature, we are asked to imagine ourselves as other selves, for better or worse.
— Joanna Scott
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Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?
— Siri Hustvedt
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