Frederick Buechner Quotes

• Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

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• God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

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• Go where your best prayers take you.

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• It is not objective proof of God’s existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God’s presence.

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• Lord, I believe; help my unbelief is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

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• Glory is to God what style is to an artist… To behold God’s glory, to sense his style, is the closest you can get this side of Paradise, just as to read King Lear is the closest you can get to Shakespeare.

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• Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

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• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

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• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Do not be afraid.

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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 spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

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• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn’t have been complete without you.

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• Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

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• Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.

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• It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

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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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• If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

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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 the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

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• “The life i touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

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• Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else’s joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way. These are all spoken not just to yourself but to something even more familiar than yourself and even more strange than the world.

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  Tags in World, Beautiful, Something

• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back — in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

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Frederick Buechner (20)

Birth:	11th July, 1926
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Novelist, Theologian

About

Carl Frederick Buechner was born in New York City, USA. He is an American ordained Presbyterian minister, novelist, theologian, and the author of more than thirty published books. His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays, and sermons. He is best known for his works A Long Day's Dying. He has written several novels include:  Godric, On the road with the archangel, and The Book of Bebb. His autobiographical works including The Sacred Journey, Now and Then, and Telling Secrets. He has written several books include: Listening to your life, Telling the truth, Secrets in the dark, Wishful thinking, Beyond Words, The hungering dark, Brendan, Whistling in the dark, and The Son of Laughter.

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