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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.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
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