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There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
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New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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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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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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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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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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The world needs people who save lives.
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
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The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang - I've never reached that point in my life.
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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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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
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If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.
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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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