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Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and

Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else’s. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.

Frederick Buechner
Giving, Missing, Feelings

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

Frederick Buechner
Giving, World, Christ

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

Frederick Buechner
Giving, Doe, Answers
FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Apr 26, 2017

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Frederick Buechner
Giving, Mind, Saint

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

Frederick Buechner
Believe, Heart, Giving
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.

Frederick Buechner
Our World, Giving, Here And There
Frederick Buechner (1983). “Now and Then”, HarperCollins Publishers

ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start looking in the Bible for the answers it gives. Start by listening for the questions it asks.

Frederick Buechner
Long, Giving, Silence
Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have. The remark of that it is more blessed to give than to receive is based on the human truth that the more you give away in love, the more you are. It is not just for the sake of other people that tells us to give rather than get, but for our own sakes too.

Frederick Buechner
Blessed, People, Giving
FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 27, 2014

. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

Frederick Buechner
Peace, Hands, Giving

I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for an hour through the Bible. But I really do read it with a great deal of pleasure... which is the last thing I would have suspected. So I read it sometimes as a devotional, but really more, not for fun, but because it's fascinating.

Frederick Buechner
Fun, Giving, Want
Source: www.jmm.org.au

That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their time they all bore his on them. What's friendship, when all's done, but the giving and taking of wounds?

Frederick Buechner
Giving, Done, Bears

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.

Frederick Buechner
Eye, Giving, Bird

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