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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.

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
Laugh
Laughing
Left
Ends
Nothing
Weep
Weeping
Till
Inspiring

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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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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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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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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
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If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
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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 difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word God, at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.
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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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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
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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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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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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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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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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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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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Go where your best prayers take you.
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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
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