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if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
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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Carl Frederick Buechner
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
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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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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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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
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