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You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
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I was deeply influenced by an Episcopal laywoman named Agnes Sanford, who in her day was quite famous as a faith healer, which is a term I've always distrusted, because it conjures up charlatanry. She was not a charlatan. She was the real thing, and she had had remarkable healings.
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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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To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, I believe in my friend.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
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If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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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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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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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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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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Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
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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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