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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
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In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
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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 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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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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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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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
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We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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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.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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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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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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