Childish things Quote by Frederick Buechner Download Open image “If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.” — Frederick Buechner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Childish things Children Nostalgia Remembrance Seems
I do think it's good to remember that childish things are made for children, and that, however pleasantly lurid the promise of a return… — Lauren Faust Copy Share Image
It was childish what you did but who am I to kid just because I've grown on my own. — SdotHawkins Copy Share Image
Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I acted like child, but when I became a man, I put away childish things. — Shane Smith Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it didfor millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The things that the world fills time with are enough to turn the heart to stone, but the goodness of time itself is as untouched by them as the freshness of a spring morning is untouched by yelps from the scaffold. Time is good because the Holy One made it that way and then set the heavenly bodies wheeling through… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
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Sometimes I wish Marta were more loyal to me. Like the other day. The car parked next to ours had a real dirty windshield;… — Jack Handey Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when I grew… — Karleen Koen Copy Share Image
“I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be... This does not mean that I ought to be trapped or enclosed in any of these ages...the delayed… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share
When I became a man, I put away childish things and got more elaborate and expensive childish things from France and Japan. — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“A memory rose, unbidden, unwanted. Trite in its way, yet the truth of the statement hit her to the core. “When I was a… — J.T. Ellison Copy Share Image
“All that helter-skelter about strings and memories was only relevant in the dark. It was light out now and time to put away childish… — Benjamin Brindise Copy Share Image
“Jane wondered...When the girl was not cleaning her suite, which wouldn't take much time, and when she was not making her meals, and when she was not exercising, and when she was not being owned by some visitor, how often did she sit staring into space, alone and silent and still, as if she were a doll abandoned by a… — Dean Koontz Copy Share
“The ancient wisdoms are modern nonsenses. Live in your own time, use what we know, and as you grow up, perhaps the human race… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
