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The world is full of people who seem to have listened to the wrong voice and are now engaged in life work in which they find no pleasure or purpose and who run the risk of suddenly realizing someday that they have spent the only years they are ever going to get in this world doing something which could not matter less to themselves or to anyone else.
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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
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In the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
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Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back—in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
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Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....
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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.
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It is important to tell our secrets too because... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of their own, and exchanges like that have a lot to do with what being a family is all about and what being human is all about.
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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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Born:
July 11, 1926
Died:
August 15, 2022
(aged 96)
Bio:
Carl Frederick Buechner was an American writer and theologian. He was an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books.
Known for:
Listening to your life (1992)
Godric (1980)
The sacred journey (1982)
Secrets in the dark (2006)
The Alphabet of Grace (1970)
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