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Them Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
- In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen…
- To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss…
- If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
- 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…
- Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
- Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
- 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…
- I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why…
- People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget…
- 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…
- If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that…
- 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…
- You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- 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…
- 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…
- Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your…
- The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth…
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
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- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old. — William Shakespeare