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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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Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
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The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to escape the squirrel-cage of being me into the landscape of being us.
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For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.
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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
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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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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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We have God's joy in our blood.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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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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Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
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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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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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To believe is not intellectual assent: Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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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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The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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