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• Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all. Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway. A journey without maps. Tillich says that doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith.

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  Faith, Journey, Opposites

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.109, Zondervan

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• A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

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  Christian, Eye, Hands

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

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• Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God.

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  Judging, Trying, Remember

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• Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 17, 2016

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• Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.

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  People, Risk, Love Each Other

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from May 10, 2017

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• If you want to be holy, be kind.

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  Want, Be Kind, Holy

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• . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul.

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  Running, Stars, Crazy

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

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• To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

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  Forgiveness, Pride, Rights

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 21, 2013

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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.

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  Healing, Eye, Joy

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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• Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

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  Inspirational, Hurt, Source

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

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• What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought.

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  Thinking, Endless, Dialogue

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• Go where your best prayers take you.

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  Prayer, Best Prayer

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 22, 2013

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• Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

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  Justice, Mercy, Grammar

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 23, 2017

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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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  Strong, Grows, Humans

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

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• Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

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  Pain, Joy, Risk

  Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins

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• Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.

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  Spiritual, Spirituality

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

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• True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

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  Angel, Simple, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Brendan: A Novel”, p.12, Harper Collins

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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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  Eye, Journey, Might

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

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• Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

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  Language, Speak, Easy

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• In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

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  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

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• Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will not be ours for long, and once it is gone it will never in all time be ours again. Thou only knowest what it holds in store for us, yet even we know something of what it will hold. The chance to speak the truth, to show mercy, to ease another’s burden. The chance to resist evil, to remember all the good times and good people of our past, to be brave, to be strong, to be glad.

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  Strong, Past, Yesterday

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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• Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

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  Religious, Moving, Doubt

  Frederick Buechner (2007). “Wunschdenken: ein religiöses ABC”, p.128, Theologischer Verlag Zürich

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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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  Hate, Heart, Deep Love

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.3, Harper Collins

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• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

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  Love, Justice, Judging

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

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• For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.

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  Long, Remember, Lost

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.23, Harper Collins

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