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I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.

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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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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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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To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
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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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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
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It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang - I've never reached that point in my life.
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To believe is not intellectual assent: Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
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Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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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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The world needs people who save lives.
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Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
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A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
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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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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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