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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
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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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I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.
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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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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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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
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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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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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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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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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The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, Follow me.
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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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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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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.
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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