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"50 Frederick Buechner Quotes & Sayings

      American     /    
Born: 11 July 1926 | Writer | Novelist | Poet | Essayist | Preacher | Theologian |

Go where your best prayers take you.

Go Best Prayers You
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Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

World Beautiful Terrible Thing
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The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
God Place Deep Gladness
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Go where your best prayers take you

Go Prayer Take
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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.
Life Grace Sleep Night
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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.

Grace God Life Complete
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Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Doubt Ant Pants Faith
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Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Coincidence God Attention
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The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt

Life Touch Trembling Felt
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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.
Impossible God Demonstrate Existence
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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.

Miracle Greater Sum Parts
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To be wise is to be eternally curious.
Wise Eternally Curious
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Joy Mystery Anywhere Anytime
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It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

Words Unsaid Split Friends
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Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need

Vocation Deep Gladness
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The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

God Place Deep Gladness
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Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Lust Craving Salt Dying
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Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are
Wake Morning God Feet
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Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Remember Ill Good Dream
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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.

Power God Love Answer
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God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
God Himself Answer
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Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

Process Reveal God Room
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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.

Survive Grow Strong Own
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Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
Listen Life Moments
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Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

Whether God Preserve
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Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Faith Nothing Guide Grasps
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... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
Long run Joy Finally
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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

Lord Believe Unbelief God
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The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Story Measure Us all
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Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

Listen Life Happening Journey
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You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

Extraordinary Way Ordinary
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The life that 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.

Life Touch Good Life
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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.
Sin Grace Tragedy Comedy.
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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.

Carve Place Grace Born
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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 that I can imagine ever having found in any other kind of relationship.

Marriage Bond Greater Found
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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

Words Deep Hate
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around
Past Place Present Around
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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.

Deserve Taste Raspberries Cream
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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

Extraordinary Happen Match Moment
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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.

Found Death Life Scarcely
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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

Jesus Remember Kingdom Cross
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Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
Jesus Speak True
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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.

God Unending greatness Possible
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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.

Poet Lunatic Lover Religious
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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.

Objective Proof God Existence
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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.

Wild Hope Christmas World
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Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
Theology Fiction Autobiographical
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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.

Remember Past Today Grace
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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

Word Eternal Final sense Life
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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.
People Pray Darkness Lot
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Frederick Buechner Quotes & Sayings