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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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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.
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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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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
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At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
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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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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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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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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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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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If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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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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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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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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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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