Frederick Buechner Famous Quotes
"If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."
"In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints."
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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.
"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. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too."
"Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as we expect it to be but as it is--is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love."
Frederick Buechner Quotations
Hatred paralyzes life love releases it. Hatred confuses life love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life love illumines it.
Martin Luther King Jr
"The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself."
Pierre Charron
Finley is going over to get a new piece of bat.
Jerry Coleman
"The Joker Tell me something, my friend. You ever dance with the devil by the pale moonlight"
Batman
"Two things a man should never be angry at what he can help, and what he cannot help."
Thomas Fuller
"Judge thyself with the judgment of sincerity, and thou will judge others with the judgment of charity."
John Mitchell Mason
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Doug Larson
The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.
Aristotle
"If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work."
Kahlil Gibran
Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt