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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
Fast
Losing
Hold
Inspirational
Become
Find
Ceasing
Something
Positivity
Letting

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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.
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In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
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Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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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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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
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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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