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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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She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue,…
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So he held her and he prayed. Shafts of moonlight on his face. But the baby in her womb, He was the…
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ILLUSTRIOUS, adj. Suitably placed for the shafts of malice, envy and detraction.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like…
— Honore de Balzac
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real…
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We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of…
— Jean Plaidy
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Britain, however, has ended up specializing in the ones you don't see as much of: defense aerospace, making drive shafts for cars,…
— Evan Davis
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar…
— Edmund Spenser
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Journeys bring power and love back into you. If you can't go somewhere, move in the passageways of the self. They are…
— Rumi
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This place of mine never is entered by humans come for conversation, only by the mute moon's light shafts that slip in…
— SaigyÅ
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Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers...
— Isaac D'Israeli
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The heart of every man lies open to the shafts of correction if the archer can take proper aim.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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