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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

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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In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
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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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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang - I've never reached that point in my life.
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The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet
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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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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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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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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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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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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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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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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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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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