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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.” quote by Frederick Buechner — Download Open image

“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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In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

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It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it didfor millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there…

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At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I…

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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark…

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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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A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

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“The things that the world fills time with are enough to turn the heart to stone, but the goodness of time itself is as untouched by them as the freshness of a spring morning is untouched by yelps from the scaffold. Time is good because the Holy One made it that way and then set the heavenly bodies wheeling through…

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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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“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in…

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

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