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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.
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I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.
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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we are fools if we do not live it as fully and bravely and beautifully as we can.
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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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Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.
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Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.
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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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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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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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