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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Theologian
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New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
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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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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 are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
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. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
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Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.
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To believe is not intellectual assent: Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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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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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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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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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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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
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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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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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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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