"Doubts are the ants in the pants of……" — Frederick Buechner

"Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

— Frederick Buechner

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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner has 169 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because…
It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes…
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a…
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are…
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the…
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and…
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.…

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More Ants Quotes

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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has… — Winston Churchill
The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no… — Clarence Day
The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and… — Murray Rothbard
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. — Gerald Brenan

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