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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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Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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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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It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang - I've never reached that point in my life.
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, I believe in my friend.
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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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Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.
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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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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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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 be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
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