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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.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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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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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
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That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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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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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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We have God's joy in our blood.
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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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... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
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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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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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You can survive on your own you can grow strong on your own you can prevail on your own but you cannot become human on your own.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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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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God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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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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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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