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People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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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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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.
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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.
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To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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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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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
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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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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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