Lust is the craving for salt of a person who is dying of thirst.
Frederick Buechner in Wishful Thinking (1973)
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If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
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Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
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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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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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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin--not presumably because God refuses to forgive it but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
Frederick Buechner in Wishful Thinking (1973)
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