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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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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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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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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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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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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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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
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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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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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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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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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