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Words 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…
- 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…
- Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
- The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things…
- Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
- 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…
- It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
- 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…
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- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
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- The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or… — Teresa of Avila