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Speak Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
- He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and…
- Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
- Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not…
- When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I…
- When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to strangers. Long before…
- 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…
- 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…
- We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have…
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- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible. — Jane Austen
- I just let the work speak for itself. An actor is not afraid to take risks; to put on different hats; to… — Kevin Bacon
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- People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom. — Francis Bacon
- I'm just the messenger here. I'm just another representative of my faith, so to speak. — Stephen Baldwin
- It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth. — Arthur Balfour
- Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we… — J. G. Ballard
- I only live in the world of animal protection. I speak only of that. I think only of that. I am obsessed. — Brigitte Bardot
- Tradition demands that we not speak poorly of the dead. — Daniel Barenboim