Frederick Buechner Quotes

Truly Human September 12 In Addition To The Battle To "get Ahead," There Is Another: THIS OTHER WAR Is The War Not To Conquer But The War To Become Whole And At Peace Inside Our Skins. It Is A War Not Of Conquest Now But Of Liberation Because The Object Of This Other War Is To Liberate That Dimension Of Selfhood Which Has Somehow Become Lost, That Dimension Of Selfhood That Involves The Capacity To Forgive And To Will The Good Not Only Of The Self But Of All Other Selves. This Other War Is The War To Become A Human Being. This Is The Goal That We Are Really After And That God Is Really After. This Is The Goal That Power, Success, And Security Are Only Forlorn Substitutes For. This Is The Victory That Not All Our Human Armory Of Self-confidence And Wisdom And Personality Can Win For Us - Not Simply To Be Treated As Human But To Become At Last Truly Human.

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