"It’s less the words they say than those……" — Frederick Buechner
"It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart."
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Frederick Buechner
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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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Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
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The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
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