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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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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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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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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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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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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 remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
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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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I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Frederick Buechner
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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The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
Frederick Buechner
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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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.
Frederick Buechner
Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
Frederick Buechner
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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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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