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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Theologian
Writer
New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
Worst
Impossible
Possible
Littleness
Best
Unending
Men
Rarely
Greatness
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
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We have God's joy in our blood.
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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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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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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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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.
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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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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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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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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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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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