"The life I touch for good or ill……" — Frederick Buechner
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt."
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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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I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.
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Whatever you have received more than others-in health, in talents, in ability, in success, in a pleasant childhood, in harmonious…
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In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.
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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us…
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She saw herself moving through another life, an exotic, difficult, satisfying life.
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Death is the door from the superficial life, the so-called life, the trivial. There is a door. If you pass…
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Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are…
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