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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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New York City
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Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
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The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.
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Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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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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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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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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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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Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
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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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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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