And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I …

Frederick Buechner
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And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life? ✨ Frederick Buechner (2009). Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons, p.13, Harper Collins
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