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• The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word "God," at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.

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  Mean, Heart, Differences

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

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• To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even to ourselves, because it is only by journeying for the world's sake - even when the world bores and sickens and scares you half to death - that little by little we start to come alive.

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  Journey, Scare, Half

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.31, Harper Collins

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• The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

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  World, Language, Speak

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• Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and most impregnable stronghold which is the human heart. It is the most powerless because it can do nothing except by consent.

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  Powerful, Heart, Love Is

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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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  God, Faith, Religious

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• There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. 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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  Song, Easter, Book

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• The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

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  Strong, Reality, Steel

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.22, Harper Collins

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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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  Needs, Done, World

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• Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

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  Jesus, Believe, News

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Apr 17, 2015

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• Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

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  Dream, Assurance

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

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  Love, Life, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Oct 02, 2015

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• If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.

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  Mean, Answers, Expecting

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• Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally finish with the past in the sense of removing its power to hurt us and other people and to stunt our growth as human beings.

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  Hurt, Memories, Past

  Frederick Buechner (1991). “Telling Secrets”, Harper San Francisco

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• A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

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  Miracle, Plus, Thousand

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

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• A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

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  Faith, Latin, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.2, Zondervan

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• By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).

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  Writing, Needs, Done

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• ...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.

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  Writing, Godly, Way

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• What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

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  Prayer, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

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• Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.

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  Atheist, Believe, Knowing

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Oct 19, 2016

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• You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

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  Ordinary, Way, Extraordinary

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• The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

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  Jesus, Worry, Enemy

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

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• Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

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  Knowing, Missing, Looks

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.372, Zondervan

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• What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.

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  Needs, World, Should

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

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  Long, Giving, Silence

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

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• Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.

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  Our World, Giving, Here And There

  Frederick Buechner (1983). “Now and Then”, HarperCollins Publishers

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