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“Tomorrow lurks in us, the latency to be all that was not achieved before.”

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Loren Eiseley was an American science writer known for his profound insights into nature and the human condition. His works, which blend science, literature, and philosophy, have had a lasting impact on subsequent generations. more

“Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.”

Wells Happens Pain Joy Alive Risk Depth Painful Who We Are Reaching Reach Out Stewards Painful Times

Book:The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

Source: The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

“My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours.”

Ifs Knows Way Important Stories Chance Mines God Knows Chances Are

Author:Frederick Buechner

“To be bored to death is a form of suicide.”

Form Suicide Bored Bored To Death

Book:Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized

Source: Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized

“In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together.”

World Way Years Humans Book Helping Dream Seems Together Goes On Our Dreams Haunting

Book:Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“Almost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved.”

Real Differences

Book:Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

Source: Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith

“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.”

People Giving Humans Blessed Greed Sake Mathematical Remarks Avarice Truism Avarice Greed

Author:Frederick Buechner

“To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.”

Knows Sin Bridges Abyss

Book:Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

Source: Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.

“If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.”

Ifs Reach Out Preacher Preaching

Author:Frederick Buechner

“It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.”

Thinking Want Existence Miracle Proof Objectives God's Presence Proof Of God

Author:Frederick Buechner

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