"What
God says, is 'The life you save is the life you lose.' In other words,
the life you clutch, hoard, guard, and play safe with is in the end a
life worth little to anybody, including yourself, and only a life given
away for love's sake is a life worth living. To bring his point home,
God shows us a man who gave his life away to the extent of dying a
national disgrace without a penny in the bank or a friend to his name.
In terms of human wisdom, he was a Perfect Fool. And if you think you
can follow him without making something like the same kind of a fool of
yourself, you are laboring under not a cross but a delusion." -
Frederick Buechner
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