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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.

— Frederick Buechner Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

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

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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.

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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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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

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