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Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
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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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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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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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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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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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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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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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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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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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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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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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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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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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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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ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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