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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
– Frederick Buechner

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  1. … 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
  2. The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83 – Frederick Buechner
  3. Courage is not the absence of fear. Hope is not the absence of trouble. Joy is not the absence of pain. Love is not the absence of obstacles. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  4. – Murder is a sin. It’s a sin in Judaism, it’s a sin in Christianity, it’s a sin in Islam and every other-¦- I’ll decide what’s a sin. – Robert Ferrigno
  5. I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures. I divide the world into the learners and nonlearners. – Benjamin Barber
  6. To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. – Frederick Buechner
  7. Everything in Scripture is either preparation for the Gospel, presentation of the Gospel, or participation in the Gospel. – Dave Harvey
  8. Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. – Angela Carter
  9. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid. – Frederick Buechner
  10. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy. – Philip Roth
  11. When people divide, things end. Therefore: I won’t divide because I don’t want this to end. – Daniel C Tomas
  12. 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
  13. A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. – Frederick Buechner
  14. Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. – Frederick Buechner
  15. I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. – Frederick Buechner
  16. 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
  17. The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. – Frederick Buechner
  18. You have to suffer in order to be beautiful. – Frederick Buechner
  19. [W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much. – Frederick Buechner
  20. Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. – Frederick Buechner
  21. With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other’s cards. – Frederick Buechner
  22. I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not. – Frederick Buechner
  23. A comedy that has been divide in two can never be Restored – Jun Mochizuki
  24. A comedy isn’t about being funny…a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. – Gary D Schmidt
  25. If you want to get results in your life try with comedy… first pressure then apply comedy. Always it shallow the shitty life-pressure! – Deyth Banger
  26. Comedy should provoke! It should blast through prejudices, challenge preconceptions; comedy should always leave you different than when it found you. – Duckman Jason Alexander
  27. Everything is ‘just a story’. Tragedy, comedy, end of the world, what ever it’s just a story. What matters is making sure it’s heard. – Mira Grant
  28. Tragedy is actually untimely comedy – Adhish Mazumder
  29. Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy. – Kilroy J Oldster
  30. A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can’t play tragedy while you’re living it. – Edna Ferber
  31. A life without trouble and tragedy is boring and not a plot for comedy. – Debasish Mridha
  32. Was that tragedy? Or was that comedy? Was there really any difference? – Orson Scott Card
  33. Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. – John Piper
  34. I was born one thousand times and all the while it was you I met again to only meet again under the thousand stars that divide us and connect us. – Christina Strigas
  35. We share the gospel with others because we believe the gospel is not just about heaven, but about having life even here on earth. – Adam Hamilton
  36. Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires. – John Owen
  37. The gospel is the gospel of the cross. This means that God loves the objects of his wrath and that he, in his love, embraces men alienated from him. – Kazoh Kitamori
  38. Grace (the Gospel) is under attack today simply because it reveals the GOODNESS of God. Nothing reveals the GOODNESS of God more than grace. – John Paul Warren
  39. What happens outside you, and what happens inside you – happens in two entirely different worlds. You can take charge of only one of these worlds. – Manoj Arora
  40. Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out. – Pierre Berton

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