"Lust is the craving for salt of a……" — Frederick Buechner
"Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."
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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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More Craving Quotes
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An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no…
— Felix Adler
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The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.
— Bill Bryson
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Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar…
— John Jay Chapman
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I love healthy stuff and junk an equal amount. Whatever I'm craving, I go for it. I'm never trying to…
— Kelly Clarkson
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[M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of…
— John Climacus
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All cravings are the mind seeking salvation or fulfillment in external things and in the future as a substitute for…
— Eckhart Tolle
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work…
— H.G. Wells
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Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows…
— William James
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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The choice is ours: we can keep on craving what we don't have, and so perpetuate our unhappiness, or we…
— Andrew Weil
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I will smile at friend and foe alike and make every effort to find, in him or her, a quality…
— Og Mandino
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