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It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around...

It is more than just memory, I think, that binds us to the past. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around…
– Frederick Buechner

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  3. To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. – Frederick Buechner
  4. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
  5. 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. – Frederick Buechner
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  9. I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. – Frederick Buechner
  10. … the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both… – Frederick Buechner
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  24. You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. – VT Davy
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  34. Plan from your internal or spiritual view of things. The external view always has a way of distorting, discouraging and limiting your dream. – Archibald Marwizi
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  37. Behind your view there are other views; to see them, you must first visit the view you see! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  38. The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one. – Brooks Atkinson
  39. We want to make certain that we view culture through the eyes of faith, that we don’t view our faith through the eyes of culture. – Stephen D Livesday
  40. When they look at a beautiful view, most people see their memories, not the view! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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