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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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New York City
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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
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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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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
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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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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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