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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
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
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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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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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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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if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
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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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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
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One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
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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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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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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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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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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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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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