Frederick Buechner Quotes - Page 9

• If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

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  Christian, Dimensions, Speak

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.

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  Christian, Thinking, Important

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Al final, todos los "ismos" se acaban, y que les vaya bien a la mayoría de ellos. El patriotismo, por ejemplo. [...] Si para asegurarnos de que no nos borramos del mapa de una vez por todas, acabamos cediendo una parte de la soberanía nacional a algún organismo internacional, tanto peor para la soberanía nacional. En última instancia, sólo hay una soberanía que importa, y es de otro tipo.

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  Running, Blow, Example

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• La vocación es el lugar donde se encuentran la mayor necesidad del mundo y la mayor alegría de una persona.

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  Alegría, Necesidades, Mundo

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• Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

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  Jesus, Easter, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.

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  Jesus, May, Might

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2017

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• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

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  Dream, Powerful, Book

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• Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

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  Fiction, Theology

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• It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

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  People, Leaving, Church

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.

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  Mean, Speaks Out, Voice

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• No soy religioso en el sentido de que no suscribo ningún dogma religioso concreto. No voy a la iglesia. No leo la Biblia. Pero creo que la palabra "Espíritu" con mayúscula apunta a una realidad última a la que entrego mi corazón.

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  Religious, Believe, Heart

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• El otro día, como hace la gente que se acerca a los 80 años, estaba pensando en todos los últimos asuntos - funerales y dónde quieres que te entierren - y pensé que si había que inscribir algo en mi lápida, que fuera eso.

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  Tombstone, Thinking, People

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

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  Destroying Me, Doubt, Would Be

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?

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  Thinking, Long, Risk

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.54, Zondervan

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• ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.

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  Rain, Winter, Flames

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• Creo que lo que sugiere el Génesis es que este yo original, con la huella del pulgar de Dios todavía en él, es la parte más esencial de lo que somos y está enterrado en lo más profundo de todos nosotros como una fuente de sabiduría y fuerza y curación a la que podemos recurrir o, con nuestra terrible libertad, no recurrir según elijamos. Creo que, entre otras cosas, todo el arte real procede de ese yo más profundo: la pintura, la escritura, la música, la danza, todo aquello que de alguna manera alimenta el espíritu.

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  Art, Real, Believe

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• El Escudo era otro de los nombres del Miedo. Según Risa, significa que protege a la descendencia de Abraham del mismo modo que un hombre que enciende un fuego protege la llama. Cuando Sara estaba a punto de morir sin hijos, el Miedo le dio un hijo. Cuando Abraham estaba a punto de sacrificar al hijo, el Miedo le dio el carnero. Siempre nos está protegiendo como a una mecha, dijo Risa, porque el fuego que intenta encender con nosotros es un fuego al que el mundo entero vivirá para calentarse las manos. Es un fuego en la oscuridad que iluminará el hogar del mundo entero.

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  Laughter, Home, Mean

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• In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.

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  Sex, England, New England

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.

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  Giving Up, Self, Way

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

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• It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

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  Old Friends, Splits, Unsaid

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• Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

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  Men, Way, Mystery

  Frederick Buechner (1973). "Wishful thinking: a theological ABC", Harper San Francisco

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• Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

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  Christian, Baseball, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 02, 2015

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• I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.

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  Fun, Giving, Want

  Source: www.jmm.org.au

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• I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

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  Thinking, Hopeless, Praying

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.

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  Real, Healing, Remarkable

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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