Frederick Buechner Short Quotes

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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

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The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

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

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We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

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Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.

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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

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Your calling is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

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In the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

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The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

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The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

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The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger coincide.

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One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

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A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

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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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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

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You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.

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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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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

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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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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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Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.

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