Frederick Buechner Quotes - Page 10

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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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• I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.

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  Responsibility, Found, Know How

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

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• Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

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  Jesus, Pain, Sadness

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

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• Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.

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  Inspiring, Laughing, Ends

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• What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.

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  Thinking, Church, Saying Yes

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

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• Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

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  Religious, Prayer, Anxious

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

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• He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

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  Men, Years, Grace

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Apr 07, 2015

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• God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be my own particular demon, a floating sense of doom that has ruined many of what could have been, should have been, the happiest days of my life, and more than a few times in my life I have been raised from such ruins, which is another way of saying that more than a few times in my life I have been raised from death - death of the spirit anyway, death of the heart - by the healing power that Jesus calls us both to heal with and to be healed by.

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  Jesus, Healing, Heart

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 02, 2013

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• I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.

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  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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

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• It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.

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  Answers, Might, Form

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

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• If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.

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  Mean, Grace, Depth

  Frederick Buechner's Door Interview, www.jmm.org.au. October 13, 2003.

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• That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?

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  Giving, Done, Bears

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• 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.

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  Character, Past, Creative

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

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• I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I can remember, I also loved those books I read and the people I met in them and the worlds they opened up to me. Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.

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  Children, Book, Rain

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• To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

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  Believe, Mean, Heart

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

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• She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

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  Eye, Dark, Reality

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.21, Zondervan

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• I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

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  People, Sick, Way

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

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• Five friends I had and two of them snakes.

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  Snakes, Two, Five Friends

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• God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

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  Greatness, Men, Impossible

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• Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.

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  Book, Writing, Speak

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

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• And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us.

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  War, Home, People

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

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• The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

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  Church, Tradition, Reason

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

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