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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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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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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.
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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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Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
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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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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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I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
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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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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
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You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
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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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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
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