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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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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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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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Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.
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