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The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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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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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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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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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
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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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