"They are prepared for a God who strikes……" — Frederick Buechner
"They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb..."
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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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In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we…
— Mother Teresa
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Yet what each one does is by no means of little moment. The grass has to put forth all its…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed,…
— Sarada Devi
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The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus…
— Swami Vivekananda
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
— Vikram Seth
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It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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My parents went through the dictionary looking for a beautiful name, nearly called me Banyan, flicked on a few pages…
— China Mieville
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