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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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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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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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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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If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.
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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
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Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
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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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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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The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
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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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To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.
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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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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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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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Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.
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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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