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Quotes from The Magnificent Defeat — Frederick Buechner

1926–2022 United States

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'Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Frederick Buechner (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.