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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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New York City
New York
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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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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
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Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
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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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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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The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet
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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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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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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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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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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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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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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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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
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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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We have God's joy in our blood.
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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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She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
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