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Us Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one,…
- 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…
- Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of…
- Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly…
- The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too…
- In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with…
- And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left…
- Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
- Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's…
- The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
- It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of…
- From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay…
- To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between…
- ... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
- 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…
- 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…
- I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part…
- My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will…
- the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
- 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…
More Us Quotes
- Sometimes I think that life would be how much easier if we don't have heart. Because it is the heart which puts… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar