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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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At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
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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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The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
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I think most people, if I asked, would say, Yes, of course I believe. But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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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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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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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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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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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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