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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
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New York City
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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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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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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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We have God's joy in our blood.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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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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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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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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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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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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