"The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness……" — Frederick Buechner
"The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own."
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Frederick Buechner
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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner
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