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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

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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The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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We have God's joy in our blood.
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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
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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.
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Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.
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Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
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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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I think most people, if I asked, would say, Yes, of course I believe. But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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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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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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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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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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The world needs people who save lives.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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