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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.

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
Survived
Gift
Grace
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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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You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.
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She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
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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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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
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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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