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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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I think most people, if I asked, would say, Yes, of course I believe. But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.
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You can survive on your own you can grow strong on your own you can prevail on your own but you cannot become human on your own.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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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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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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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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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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Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.
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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.
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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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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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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.
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You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
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