"Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet……" — Frederick Buechner
"Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God."
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Frederick Buechner
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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner
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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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A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the…
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