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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Theologian
Writer
New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
Grammar
Mercy
Poetry
Justice
Things

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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
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If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they 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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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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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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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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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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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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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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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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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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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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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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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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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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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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