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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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Party #Mean #Grace
“I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Fun #Giving #Want
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Sleep #Night #Grace
“If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Mean #Grace #Depth
“In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Yesterday #Today #Another Day
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Inspirational #Life #Beautiful
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Love #Justice #Judging
“For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Long #Remember #Lost
“Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Joy #Needs #Calling
“Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Jesus #Speak
“Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a sermon, not in the throes of some kind of religious daydream, but...at supper time, or walking along a road...He never approached from on high, but always in the midst, in the midst of people, in the midst of real life and the questions that real life asks.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Religious #Jesus #Real
“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worldâ€™s deep hunger meet.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Healing #Godly #Generosity
“The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power from on high that comes down into the world, that wells up from the rock-bottom worst of the world like a hidden spring. Can you believe it? The last, best thing is the laughing deep in the hearts of the saints, sometimes our hearts even. Yes. You are terribly loved and forgiven. Yes. You are healed. All is well.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Spring #Believe #Heart
“Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Fiction #Theology
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Life #Happiness #Lonely
“Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Joy #World #Needs
“The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Giving #World #Christ
“Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Mean #Lasts #Resurrection
“Go where your best prayers take you.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Prayer #Best Prayer
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Ignorance #Compassion #Joy
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Mean #Answers #Expecting
“When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I am on who you are. It means that you can summon me back to your mind even though countless years and miles may stand between us. It means that if we meet again, you will know me. It means that even after I die, you can still see my face and hear my voice and speak to me in your heart.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Heart #Mean #Who I Am
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Men #Would Be #Impossible
“Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Men #Way #Mystery
“Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that you are here in all your splendor, always and everywhere, barely hidden, beneath, beyond, within this life I breathe.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Pain #Today #Splendor
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Life #Spiritual #Pain
“When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Helping Others #Suffering #Persons
“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.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Morning #Self #Feet
“If you want to be holy, be kind.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Want #Be Kind #Kind
“Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.”
-- Frederick Buechner

#Kings #Fun #Pain

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