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If you want to be holy, be kind.

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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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.
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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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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
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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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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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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 say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless therefore I’m not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does.'” Maybe that’s an even worse mistake than praying might be.
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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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Like a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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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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Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
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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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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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