QUOTES by Frederick Buechner
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"I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real."
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"Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep."
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"The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than the day a boy is born to a couple of hick Jews."
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"We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors."
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"Because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known"
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"I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not."
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"It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around..."
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"Vocation is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."
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"This side of Nirvana, there is no such escape for any of us as far as I know."
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"When Jesus said, “Do this in remembrance of me” (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia."
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"One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God."
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"It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon."
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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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"The place God calls us to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet."
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"Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he will go or to what ludicrous depths of self-humiliation He will descend in His wild pursuit of men."
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"So ever and again young Godric’s dreams well up to flood old Godric’s prayers, or prayers and dreams reach God in such a snarl he has to comb the tangle out, and who knows which he counts more dear."
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"To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden Gate Bridge."
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"O thou who art the sparrow's friend," he said, "have mercy on this world that knows not even when it sins. O holy dove, descend and roost on Godric here so that a heart may hatch in him at last. Amen"
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"Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?"
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"... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both..."
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"If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths."
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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 remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift."
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"What keeps the wild hope of Christmas alive year after year in a world notorious for dashing all hopes is the haunting dream that the child who was born that day may yet be born again even in us."
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"It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence."
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"There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three."
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"The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet."
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"God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible."
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"Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true."
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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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"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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"The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."
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"There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about any more than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks or bring about your own birth."
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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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"Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed"
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"It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship."
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"He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last."
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"Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens."
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"The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt."
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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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"Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough."
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