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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Theologian
Writer
New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
Inspirational
Become
Find
Ceasing
Something
Positivity
Letting
Fast
Losing
Hold

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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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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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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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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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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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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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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
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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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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
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Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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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.
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