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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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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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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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That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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If you want to be holy, be kind.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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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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To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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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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Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
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But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?
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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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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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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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The world needs people who save lives.
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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