Frederick Buechner Quotes About Preaching
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The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
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What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back, there have been glimpses I've had. Sometimes literally a glimpse which made me suspect the presence of something extraordinary and beyond the realm of the immediate. That's what I think a lot of what my writing has been, my preaching has been - trying to listen to that voice again, to see those moments again.
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If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
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Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.
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