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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.
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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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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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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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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
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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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What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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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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At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.
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Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
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