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Carl Frederick Buechner ist ein amerikanischer Autor und reformierter Theologe und presbyterianischer Pastor. Er schrieb 36 Bücher in verschiedenen Bereichen. An der Lawrenceville School und vielen weiteren Universitäten der USA lehrte er Kreatives Schreiben. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. Juli 1926
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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.”

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Wishful Thinking, p. 95
Variante: Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
Quelle: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.”

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“Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.”

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Quelle: Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation (1983)

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”

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Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner (1992)
Quelle: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

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Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)
Kontext: If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

“The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.”

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Quelle: The Hungering Dark

“A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.”

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Quelle: The Alphabet of Grace

“Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.”

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Frederick Buechner buch Godric

Quelle: Godric

“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And of course that is the only way it could be. If it could be somehow proved, then we would have no choice but to believe. We would lose our freedom not to believe. And in the very moment that we lost that freedom, we would cease to be human beings. Our love of God would have been forced upon us, and love that is forced is of course not love at all. Love must be freely given. Love must live in the freedom not to love; it must take risks. Love must be prepared to suffer even as Jesus on the Cross suffered, and part of that suffering is doubt.”

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The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

“Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.”

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“Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.”

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Quelle: The Alphabet of Grace (1970)

“The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.”

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“It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.”

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Quelle: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

“We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.”

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“The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather.”

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Quelle: Telling Secrets (1991)

“I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough to share them with each other has much to do with the secret of what it means to be human.”

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“Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes….”

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“It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.”

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Frederick Buechner buch Godric

Quelle: Godric (1980)

“And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?”

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Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

“Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.”

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Quelle: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.”

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Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat

“Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.”

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Quelle: The Alphabet of Grace (1970)

“Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.”

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Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat

“If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.”

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Quelle: The Magnificent Defeat (1966)

“If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.”

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Quelle: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)

“God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.”

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Telling the Truth (1977)
Quelle: Telling the Truth: The Gospel as Tragedy, Comedy, and Fairy Tale

“You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.”

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Quelle: The Sacred Journey: A Memoir of Early Days (1982)

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