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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
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New York City
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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The world needs people who save lives.
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Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
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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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You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
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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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