The love for equals is a human thing – of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and lovely. The world smiles. The love for the less fortunate is a beautiful thing – the love for those who suffer, for those who are poor, the sick, the failures, the [...]
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A Love that Conquers the World
Posted in Buechner, Frederick, tagged Compassion, Equality, Love, Poor, SUfferers on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Contrary Nature in Which We Live Our Lives
Posted in Buechner, Frederick, tagged Death, Life on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Intellectually we all know that we will die, but we do not really know it in the sense that the knowledge becomes a part of us. We do not really know it in the sense of living as though it were true. On the contrary we tend to live as though our lives would go [...]