21 ordspråk av Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner
 [A true atheist is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is no God. Given some of what we treat as religion, this is a significant commitment. The bottom line is that] ... many an atheist is a believer without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't. So it goes ... ... Wishful Thinking. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. |
| In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. |
| In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all. |
| 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. |
| Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’s all one. |
| Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that 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. |
| 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 |
| 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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