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'Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

— 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.

Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

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

Telling the Truth (1977)

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