Believe Quote by Frederick Buechner

“I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.”

Frederick Buechner

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I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on…

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Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

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The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.

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