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

~Frederick Buechner

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

~Frederick Buechner

Topics: Drops God Handkerchief His Holy Occasionally Saints World

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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

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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

Topics: Another Another Man Area Experience Human Human Experience Man Mystery One Way Pilgrimage Points Religion Way Where

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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

Topics: Because Careful Child He His Hold Know Life Never Remembering Rest Spend Take Tell Too You

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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

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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.

~Frederick Buechner

Topics: Arthur Demonstrate Even Existence God Holmes Impossible Man Sherlock Sherlock Holmes Would

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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

Topics: Any Capacity Compassion Else Fatal Feeling Finally Inside Joy Knowledge Like Live Me Never Peace Really Skin Somebody Sometimes Too Until You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Clergyman

Born: July 11th, 1926

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