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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
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New York City
New York
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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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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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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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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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
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Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.
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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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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
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She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
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Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
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I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.
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