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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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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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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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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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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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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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I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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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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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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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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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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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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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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