Quotes by Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
Principles are what people have instead of God.To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they — Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC