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 …

- George Arthur Buttrick

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

- George Arthur Buttrick

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

- George Arthur Buttrick

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 mu…

- George Arthur Buttrick

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

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 shoul…

- George Arthur Buttrick

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…

- George Arthur Buttrick

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 sh…

- George Arthur Buttrick

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

- George Arthur Buttrick