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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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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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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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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
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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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Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.
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Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.
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Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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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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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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Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.
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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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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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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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