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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
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New York City
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Carl Frederick Buechner
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
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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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But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?
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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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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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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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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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I think most people, if I asked, would say, Yes, of course I believe. But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.
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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.
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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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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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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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