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Wells Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words…
- Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open,…
- Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
- 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…
- To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to…
- 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…
- 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.…
- 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…
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