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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.

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.
– Frederick Buechner

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  2. If you give, expecting something in return, it’s not really giving at all.If you love, expecting something in return, it’s not really loving at all. – Donald L Hicks
  3. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
  4. A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. – Frederick Buechner
  5. Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. – Frederick Buechner
  6. I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. – Frederick Buechner
  7. It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around… – Frederick Buechner
  8. … the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both… – Frederick Buechner
  9. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. – Frederick Buechner
  10. You have to suffer in order to be beautiful. – Frederick Buechner
  11. To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. – Frederick Buechner
  12. Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens. – Frederick Buechner
  13. [W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much. – Frederick Buechner
  14. Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. – Frederick Buechner
  15. With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards. – Frederick Buechner
  16. I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not. – Frederick Buechner
  17. Maybe the trying is the thing. Maybe it doesn’t get better than that. Maybe you never quite get there. And maybe that’s okay. – Keith Ablow
  18. Lots of things are mystries. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an answer to them. It’s just that scientists haven’t found the answer yet. – Mark Haddon
  19. I’m an answer, Frankie. Maybe you’re an answer for me, too?-”Emerson – Liza M Wiemer
  20. I thought maybe a day was coming when I’d stop constantly worrying about how to live. Maybe at some point I’d just start living, no questions asked. – John Corey Whaley
  21. We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense. – Norton Juster
  22. You have immense power–power to overcome, power to achieve, power to possess, and power to prosper, making you incredibly irresistible. – Anitra SheltonQuinn
  23. Cinderella never asked for a prince. She asked for a night off and a dress. – Kiera Cass
  24. The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked. – Krishna Saagar
  25. Never love someone with expecting return. Love is love’s reward. – Debasish Mridha
  26. He’s never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about. – Tom Stoppard
  27. He’d never known he had so much fight in him. Never known he could be capable of so much… He was going to change the world. – Ethel Rohan
  28. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. – Frederick Douglass
  29. If someone asked me if I liked him, Yes!If someone asked me if it was love, Jeez, no!Being offered sex with him, I’d say -˜hell, yeah!’. – Kavipriya Moorthy
  30. I keep expecting to bump into you two on the road, but maybe the universe isn’t yet ready to handle you and me side by side again. – Adi Alsaid
  31. I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs. – Frederick Dougl
  32. Maybe I was wrong. Maybe there really is some goodness here in our world. But if goodness existed, that must mean that darkness existed as well. – Erica Sehyun Song
  33. Females are very simple, with them, yes means yes, & no means yes, & no means no, & no means maybe, but maybe means yes, & maybe means no! – Eyden I
  34. Maybe, it wasn’t stuck in my mind. Maybe,just maybe, it was stuck in my heart for so long that it grew wings and wanted to fly, but didn’t know how. – Shannon L Alder
  35. Maybe destiny isn’t something that just happens. Maybe destiny is something you do. Maybe destiny is like a seed and it grows. – Liesl Shurtliff
  36. Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had always been an illusion. – Dennis Lehane
  37. It was our first date and I asked what his favorite movie is. He asked if I’d judge him, but instead of judging him I just loved him. – Dominic Riccitello
  38. To save your world, you asked this man to die:Would this man, could he see you now, asked why? – WH Auden
  39. Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child’s room is like being asked inside their heart. – Catherynne M Valente
  40. A teacher asked me once, what I wanted to be when I grew up. I told her a clown and she asked me if I was joking – Ivan Baublitz

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