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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
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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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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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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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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
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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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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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Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.
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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.
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I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.
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The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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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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Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.
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. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.
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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.
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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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