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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
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One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
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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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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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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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I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.
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Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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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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Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.
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We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
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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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ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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