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Way Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
- 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…
- 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…
- The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
- The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
- Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about…
- 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…
- A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement…
- Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
- 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…
- What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.…
- 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…
- Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll…
- Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were…
- 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…
- The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a…
- For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only…
- You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
- 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…
- Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something…
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