Frederick Buechner Quotes
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
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The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger coincide.
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What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.
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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.
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We are commanded to love our neighbors as ourselves, and I believe that to love ourselves means to extend to those various selves that we have been along the way the same degree of compassion and concern that we would extend to anyone else.
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Pay attention. As a summation of all that I have had to say as a writer, I would settle for that. And as a talisman or motto for that journey in search of a homeland, which is what faith is, I would settle for that too.
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.
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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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Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.
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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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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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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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With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards.
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Five friends I had, and two of them snakes.
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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.