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I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Theologian
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New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
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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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If you want to be holy, be kind.
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Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
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Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.
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Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.
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Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
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Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
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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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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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The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
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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.
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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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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
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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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Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
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You can survive on your own you can grow strong on your own you can prevail on your own but you cannot become human on your own.
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No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
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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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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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