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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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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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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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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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Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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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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She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
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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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ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
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The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, Follow me.
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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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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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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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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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When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.
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I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.
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