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Quote by Frederick Buechner
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too. – Frederick Buechner

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Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you dont have any doubts you are either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. – Frederick Buechner

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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. – Frederick Buechner

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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. – Frederick Buechner

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