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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
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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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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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If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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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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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.
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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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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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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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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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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
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