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Go where your best prayers take you.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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New York City
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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
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The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.
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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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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.
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The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.
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Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
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... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
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To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.
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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
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The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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