Quotessence
Home / Books / A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

Book by Frederick Buechner · 3 quotes · Ifs, Eye, Attention

Filter quotes by topic

A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory Quotes

“But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?”

“Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.”