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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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You can survive on your own you can grow strong on your own you can prevail on your own but you cannot become human on your own.
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
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If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.
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Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
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Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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To believe is not intellectual assent: Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
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The world needs people who save lives.
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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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We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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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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