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Frederick Buechner
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Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale
— published 1977 |
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Godric
— published 1980 — 4 editions |
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Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner
by Frederick Buechner (Goodreads Author), George Connor — published 1992 — 5 editions |
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The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
— 5 editions |
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Telling Secrets
— published 1991 — 9 editions |
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Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
— 4 editions |
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Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons
by Frederick Buechner (Goodreads Author), Brian D. McLaren — published 2006 — 5 editions |
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The Alphabet of Grace
— published 1969 — 9 editions |
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The Son of Laughter
— published 1993 — 7 editions |
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Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation
— published 1983 — 2 editions |
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“Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.”
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“The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.”
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“Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.”
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“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”
― Frederick Buechner
― 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, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
― Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC
“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, The Hungering Dark
― Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
“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.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
― Frederick Buechner, The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days
“Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. You can sincerely believe there is a God and live as though there isn't.”
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
― Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith
“The only patriots worth their salt are the ones who love their country enough to see that in a nuclear age it is not going to survive unless the world survives. True patriots are no longer champions of Democracy, Communism, or anythig like that but champions of the Human Race. It is not the Homeland that they feel called on to defend at any cost but the planet Earth as Home. If in the interests of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is another sort altogether.”
― Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary
― Frederick Buechner, Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary
