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We have God's joy in our blood.

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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Joy

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Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.
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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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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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When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.
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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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We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.
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Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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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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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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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.
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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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