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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
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New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
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The world needs people who save lives.
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Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
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The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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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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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 other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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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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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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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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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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