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Frederick Buechner Quotes

Frederick Buechner quotes

American Clergyman July 11, 1926

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In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tree a crook and climbs down a saint. Paul sets out a hatchet man for the Pharisees and comes back a fool for Christ. Frederick Buechner
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "The past is the place we view the present from as much as the..."
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is..."
There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three. Frederick Buechner
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is..."
Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its..."
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst."
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. Frederick Buechner
... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both... Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that..."
If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. Frederick Buechner
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as..."
This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as far as I know. Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all"
the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner quote: "You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary"
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary Frederick Buechner

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