"Faith is not being sure where you're going,……" — Frederick Buechner
"Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway."
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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner has 169 quotes on this site.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because…
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes…
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a…
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are…
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the…
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.…
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I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
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Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western…
— Karen Armstrong
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.
— Francis of Assisi
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I have been all things unholy. If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
— Francis of Assisi
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in…
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Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
— Saint Augustine
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
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