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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.
Frederick Buechner
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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
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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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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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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
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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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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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If you want to be holy, be kind.
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Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.
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...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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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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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.
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Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
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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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