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And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?

— Frederick Buechner The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

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

Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.

Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons (2006)

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.

Godric (1980)

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.

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If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell.

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