Frederick Buechner Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.

  Frederick Buechner

  Earth, Fool, Enough

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Feb 20, 2017

• The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.

  Frederick Buechner

  Taken, Men, Ideas

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

• The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word "God," at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Heart, Differences

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

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