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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Theologian
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New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
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Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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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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What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.
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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
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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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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
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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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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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