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Top 25 Mark Buchanan Quotes (2025 Update)

Mark Buchanan Quote: “Sabbath’s golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.”

1. “Sabbath’s golden rule: Cease from what is necessary. Embrace that which gives life.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”

2. “Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.”

3. “The Pharisees had an ethic of avoidance, and Jesus had an ethic of involvement.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”

4. “Sometimes doubting is not a lack of faith, but an expression of it. Sometimes to doubt is to merely insist that God be taken seriously not frivolously, to insist that our faith is placed in and upheld by something other than seeming conjuring tricks.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.”

5. “Holy habits are that: the disciplines, the routines by which we stay alive and focused on Him. At first we choose them and carry them out; after a while they are part of who we are. And they carry us.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.”

6. “God gave us laughter, I think, as a balm to wash the wounds of our own blunders, as a splint to mend the bones we break in our rashness or vanity.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”

7. “Physical sickness we usually defy. Soul sickness we often resign ourselves to.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.”

8. “This is the love of God, an alchemy that can turn enemies into children.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.”

9. “Many of us are confessional giants but ethical midgets.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.”

10. “Mindset of the man too busy: I am too busy BEING God to become LIKE God.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.”

11. “Busyness makes us stop caring about the things we care about.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.”

12. “Here lies the basic flaw of all doubt. It can never really be satisfied. No evidence is ever fully, finally enough. Doubt wants always to consume, never to consummate. It clamors endlessly for an answer and so drowns out any answer that might be given it.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.”

13. “Unless and until we rest in God, we will never risk for God.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Courage encourages courage.”

14. “Courage encourages courage.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy,16 Minsky described.”

15. “Stabilizing an Unstable Economy,16 Minsky described.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.”

16. “All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.”

17. “Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear His voice and follow.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Laughter – just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.”

18. “Laughter – just good bone-shaking, belly-jiggling, light-in-the-head laughter, is a sure sign of health. The only one who hates it is Satan and all his wannabes.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of – to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there’s nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

19. “And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of – to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there’s nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “To worship is to ascribe to God things that are true about him until we actually believe that truth and live according to it.”

20. “To worship is to ascribe to God things that are true about him until we actually believe that truth and live according to it.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.”

21. “One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.”

22. “Simplicity is something more, something other than just doing without or doing it yourself. Its essence is neither forsaking nor striving. Its essence, rather, is listening: What has God put in your heart? Simplicity is, once having discerned that, being content with it. Simplifying it further: simplicity is being content with God.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.”

23. “But grace and effort are not opposites. Grace and earning are opposites.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.”

24. “Because we are what we love, our identity and our dignity depend on what we love and the depth and passion with which we love.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity... We have to train for the spiritual life.”

25. “We honestly think that we ourselves and those around us should be proficient with spiritual power, moving and acting with agility and endurance, wisdom and purity, able to conquer long-established habits of sloth and rebelliousness, simply on the basis of our desire and effort and sincerity... We have to train for the spiritual life.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.”

26. “Spiritual discipline: any activity I do by direct effort that will help me do what I cannot now do by direct effort.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It’s a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one who turns the work of his hands into sacrament, into offering. All he makes and all he does are gifts from God, through God, and to God.”

27. “The opposite of a slave is not a free man. It’s a worshiper. The one who is most free is the one who turns the work of his hands into sacrament, into offering. All he makes and all he does are gifts from God, through God, and to God.”

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Mark Buchanan Quote: “Sabbath-keeping requires two orientations. One is Godward. The other is timeward. To keep Sabbath well – as both a day and an attitude – we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God’s sovereignty, we won’t dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we’ll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.”

28. “Sabbath-keeping requires two orientations. One is Godward. The other is timeward. To keep Sabbath well – as both a day and an attitude – we have to think clearly about God and freshly about time. We likely, at some level, need to change our minds about both. Unless we trust God’s sovereignty, we won’t dare risk Sabbath. And unless we receive time as abundance and gift, not as ration and burden, we’ll never develop a capacity to savor Sabbath.”

— Mark Buchanan

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