Quotes of Carl Frederick Buechner - somelinesforyou

“ Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality — not as we expect it to be but as it is — is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality — not as we expect it to be but as it is — is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ To live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but … to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner

“ Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality — not as we expect it to be but as it is — is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love. ”

- Carl Frederick Buechner
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