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World Quotes by Frederick Buechner
- In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
- The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
- 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…
- 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…
- It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty…
- Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is…
- Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
- Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
- The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
- 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…
- The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the…
- Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
- 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…
- Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
- We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have…
- Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that…
- To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even…
- You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your…
- The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
- By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani