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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

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
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Hate
Human
Humans
Heart
Reversed
Things
Spoken
Never
Motion
Love
Deep

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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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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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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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I think most people, if I asked, would say, Yes, of course I believe. But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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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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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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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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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
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That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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