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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Theologian
Writer
New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
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Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.
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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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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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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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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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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
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To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
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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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You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.
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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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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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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
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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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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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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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