Frederick Buechner

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

— Frederick Buechner

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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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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 ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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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. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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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. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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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

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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. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

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