Frederick Buechner Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Frederick Buechner on Wise Famous Quotes.
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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. Y
You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.
I hold my plush monkey over the bannister and let it drop. Its eyes light up when you squeeze its kidneys as whose eyes, I suppose, would not.
I think that I learned something about how even tragedy can be a means of grace that I might never have come to any other way.
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
Because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known
The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God.
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
The preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth and because Jesus speaks them both ...
You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took place. I hear silences.
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.
For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.
If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.
I'm not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does. Maybe that's an even worse mistake than praying might be.
The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.
The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83
There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three.
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life ...
Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
I don't know how to save my own life, so anything they've found in what I've written that saved theirs - I can't take responsibility for it.
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed
There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.
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.
In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.
It was not so much that a door opened as that I suddenly found that a door had been open all along which I had only just then stumbled upon.