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Up Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life…
- Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is…
- Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something…
- 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…
- Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,…
- The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out…
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure…
- Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch…
- . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having…
- The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power…
- 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…
- There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the…
- When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process.…
- It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it didfor millions of…
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