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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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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
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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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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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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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If you want to be holy, be kind.
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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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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Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
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Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
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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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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
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If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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