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Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.

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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Clothes
Reputations
Within
Pretensions
Religion
Pretension
Without
Beneath
Reputation
Vulnerable
Storm

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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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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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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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Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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