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Frederick Buechner

Carl Frederick Buechner (born July 11, 1926) is an American writer and theologian. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books. His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades. Buechner's books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world. He is best known for his works A Long Day's Dying (his first work, published in 1950); The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979; Godric, a first person narrative of the life of the medieval saint, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1981; Brendan, a second novel narrating a saint's life, published in 1987; Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992); and his autobiographical works The Sacred Journey (1982), Now and Then (1983), Telling Secrets (1991), and The Eyes of the Heart: Memoirs of the Lost and Found (1999). 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. Annie Dillard (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek) says: "Frederick Buechner is one of our finest writers."

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If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

Artist, Eye, Imagination, Life, Neighbors, Say

The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

Hiding, Jesus, Know, Knows

Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.

Difference, Differences, Nothing, Proved, Real

Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

Baseball, Christian, God, Jesus, Principle

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.

Grows, Human, Humans, Prevail, Strong, Survive

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Generosity, Gladness, God, Godly, Healing, Hunger

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

Apt, Faith In God, God, Miracle, Miracles, Proceed

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Heart, Home, Man, Men

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

Beautiful, Happen, Inspirational, Life, Terrible

People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

Forget, May, People, Said, Things, Views

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Air, Airs, Dark, Looking, People, Private

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

Birth, Jesus, Living, Possible, Understanding, Way

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

Assurance, Dream, Faith, True

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.

Important, Like, Stories, Tell, Way, Ways

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

Grammar, Justice, Mercy, Poetry

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

Attention, Coincidence, Coincidences, Way

the story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all

Measure, Stories, Story

I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More. " That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.

Bored, Passion, Running, Under, Wits

My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually.

Long, Mean, Particularity, Right, Said, Track

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense that matters to reduce your life to a life hardly worth the living, and thus to lose it.

Alone, Hoarding, Life, Lose, Love Is, Matter

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