Frederick Buechner Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Kings, Fun, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 19, 2014

• To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

  Frederick Buechner

  Past, Grace, Today

• Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

  Frederick Buechner

  Strong, Past, Yesterday

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

• The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

  Frederick Buechner

  Past, Views, Way

  Frederick Buechner (1983). “Now and Then”, HarperCollins Publishers

• It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.

  Frederick Buechner

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.24, Zondervan

• Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

  Frederick Buechner

  Hurt, Memories, Past

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

• I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.

  Frederick Buechner

  Character, Past, Creative

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

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