George Arthur Buttrick Quotes

• Prayer is listening as well as speaking, receiving as well as asking; and its deepest mood is friendship held in reverence. So the daily prayer should end as it begins - in adoration.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Prayer, Listening, Receiving

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• God's providence is not in baskets lowered from the sky, but through the hands and hearts of those who love him. The lad without food and without shoes made the proper answer to the cruel-minded woman who asked, "But if God loved you wouldn't he send you food and shoes?" The boy replied, "God told someone, but he forgot."

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Spiritual, Heart, Boys

  George Arthur Buttrick (1951). “The Interpreter's Bible: General articles on the New Testament. Matthew. Mark”, Abingdon Pr

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• For a man to argue, 'I don't go to church; I pray alone,' is no wiser than if he should say, 'I have no use for symphonies; I believe only in solo music.'

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Cristiano, Creer, Hombres

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• Prayer is not a vain attempt to change God's will; it is a filial desire to learn God's will and to share it. Prayer is not a substitute for work: it is the secret spring and indispensable ally of all true work.

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  Prayer, Spring, Secret

  George Arthur Buttrick (1934). “The Christian Fact and Modern Doubt: A Preface to a Restatement of Christian Faith”

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• Necesitamos recordar deliberadamente las alegrías de nuestro viaje. Tal vez deberíamos intentar escribir las bendiciones de un día. Podríamos empezar; nunca podríamos terminar; no hay bolígrafos ni papel suficientes en todo el mundo.

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  Gratitude, Writing, Journey

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• Prayer is not a substitute for work, thinking, watching, suffering, or giving; prayer is a support for all other efforts.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Giving

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• La intercesión es más que concreta: es ponderada: exige que llevemos en el corazón la carga de aquellos por quienes rezamos.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Heart, Bears, Praying

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• Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

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  Spirit, Beckoning, Response

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• It appears that when life is broken by tragedy God shines through the breach.

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  Adversity, Broken, Shining

  George Arthur Buttrick (1942). “Prayer”

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• Life is essentially a series of events to be lived through rather than intellectual riddles to be played with and solved.

  George Arthur Buttrick

  Intellectual, Events, Life Is

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