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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.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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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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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.
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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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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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To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.
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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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