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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.
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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
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To believe is not intellectual assent: Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
Frederick Buechner
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Frederick Buechner
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
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The world needs people who save lives.
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The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word God, at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.
Frederick Buechner
Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
Frederick Buechner
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
Frederick Buechner
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
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