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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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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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She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
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if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive 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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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
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