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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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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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I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.
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Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
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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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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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But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?
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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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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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Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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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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There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
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