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Frederick Buechner

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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.


— Frederick Buechner


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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.


— Frederick Buechner


#god #religion #inspirational

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


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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.


— Frederick Buechner


#careful #child #his #hold #know

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.


— Frederick Buechner


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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


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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.


— Frederick Buechner


#childish #remembrance #seems #thing #you

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.


— Frederick Buechner


#bleeding #bleeds #death #health #heart






About Frederick Buechner

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You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. " The Magnificent Defeat
"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.

Born July 11 1926 in New York City he is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty publiFrederick Buechnerd books thus far. " He has been a finalist for the National Book Award Presented by the National Book Foundation and the Pulitzer Prize and has been awarded eight honorary degrees from such institutions as Yale University and the Virginia Theological Seminary. He has been called "Major talent" and "…a very good writer indeed" by the New York Times and "one of our most original storytellers" by USA Today.

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