Frederick Buechner Quotes About Darkness

Quotes about: Darkness

• Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sleep, Night, Grace

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 01, 2016

• We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

  Frederick Buechner

  God, Darkness, Green

• All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.

  Frederick Buechner

  Darkness, Today, Oblivion

• God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in the world and in ourselves can separate us finally from that joy, because whatever else it means to say that God created us in His image, I think it means that even when we cannot believe in Him, even when we feel most spiritually bankrupt and deserted by Him, His mark is deep within us. We have God's joy in our blood.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Believe, Mean

• 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.

  Frederick Buechner

  War, Home, People

• If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, People, Darkness

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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