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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
Autobiographer
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New York City
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Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.
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That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
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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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If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.
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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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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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Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.
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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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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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