George Buttrick Quotes

#1. He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound less silly.

Edward St. Aubyn

#2. 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

#3. Faith is the response of our spirits to beckonings of the eternal.

George Arthur Buttrick

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

George Arthur Buttrick

#5. Love and let live.

Whitney McKendree Moore

#6. We need deliberately to call to mind the joys of our journey. Perhaps we should try to write down the blessings of one day. We might begin; we could never end; there are not pens or paper enough in all the world.

George Arthur Buttrick

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

George Arthur Buttrick

#8. What matters is the effect, not the process.

Erich Fromm

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

George Arthur Buttrick

#10. A woman has no need to be perfect or even beautiful to wear my dresses. The dress will do all that for her.

Cristobal Balenciaga

#11. 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.

George Arthur Buttrick

#12. Intercession is more than specific: it is pondered: it requires us to bear on our heart the burden of those for whom we pray.

George Arthur Buttrick

#13. 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

#14. For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved,condensed, from the vastness of the world not anyhow or by the working of common powers but only by one of finer or higher pitch and determination than itself.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#15. I have a lot to say about fashion - not just about fashion, but beauty, art.

Carine Roitfeld