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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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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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The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.
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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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.
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The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
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To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.
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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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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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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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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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