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Frederick Buechner Quotes: It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.
         

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.


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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.



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Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.



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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.



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The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.



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