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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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Novelist
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New York City
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I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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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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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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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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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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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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Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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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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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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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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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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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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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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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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