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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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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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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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But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
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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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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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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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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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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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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.
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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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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.
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