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The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

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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Carl Frederick Buechner
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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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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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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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Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.
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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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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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To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
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To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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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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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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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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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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Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
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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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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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