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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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You can survive on your own you can grow strong on your own you can prevail on your own but you cannot become human on your own.
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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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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
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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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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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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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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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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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