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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.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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New York City
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Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
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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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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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In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
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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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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to strangers as though they are friends, more often than not, if only for as long as the encounter lasts, they become friends, and if in the process they also think of you as a little peculiar, who cares?
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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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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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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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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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the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
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Go where your best prayers take you.
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To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
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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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