"It is not the objective proof of God's……" — Frederick Buechner
"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get."
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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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Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.
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The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
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I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him.…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
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