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Maybe the truth of it is that it's too good not to be true.
— Frederick Buechner
All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
— Frederick Buechner
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
— Frederick Buechner
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
— Frederick Buechner
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
— Frederick Buechner
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
— Frederick Buechner
The world needs people who save lives.
— Frederick Buechner
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
— Frederick Buechner
You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.
— Frederick Buechner
You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.
— Frederick Buechner
You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.
— Frederick Buechner
Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.
— Frederick Buechner
At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner
— Frederick Buechner
We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our own lives but reactors.
— Frederick Buechner
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
— Frederick Buechner
I'm a hopeless pray-er. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.
— Frederick Buechner
I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real.
— Frederick Buechner
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.
— Frederick Buechner
In the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
— Frederick Buechner
With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.
— Frederick Buechner
Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
— Frederick Buechner
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
— Frederick Buechner
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
— Frederick Buechner
The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover's knot.
— Frederick Buechner
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
— Frederick Buechner
Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.
— Frederick Buechner
A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.
— Frederick Buechner
The story of any one of us is in some measure the story of us all
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.
— Frederick Buechner
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
— Frederick Buechner
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.
— Frederick Buechner
The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
— Frederick Buechner
To be bored to death is a form of suicide.
— Frederick Buechner
You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
— Frederick Buechner
Lying to God is like sawing the branch you're sitting on. The better you do it, the harder you fall.
— Frederick Buechner
Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
— Frederick Buechner
Life without death has become as unthinkable to me as day without night or waking without sleep.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last.
— Frederick Buechner
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
— Frederick Buechner
It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
— Frederick Buechner
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
— Frederick Buechner
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 ...
— Frederick Buechner
Nothing human's not a broth of false and true.
— Frederick Buechner
Because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known
— Frederick Buechner
Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.
— Frederick Buechner
The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
[W]e are none of us very good at silence. It says too much.
— Frederick Buechner
When Jesus said, "Do this in remembrance of me" (1 Corinthians 11:24) he was not prescribing a periodic slug of nostalgia.
— Frederick Buechner
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
We have God's joy in our blood.
— Frederick Buechner
As Frederick Buechner wrote, Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
— Jeff Goins
Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
— Frederick Buechner
Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet.
— Frederick Buechner
Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
— Frederick Buechner
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.
— Frederick Buechner
Five friends I had and two of them snakes.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed
— Frederick Buechner
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
— Frederick Buechner
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
— Frederick Buechner
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
— Frederick Buechner
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
— Frederick Buechner
In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.
— Frederick Buechner
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
— Frederick Buechner
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.
— Frederick Buechner
If you want to be holy, be kind.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
— Frederick Buechner
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
— Frederick Buechner
I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening.
— Frederick Buechner
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life ...
— Frederick Buechner
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.
— Frederick Buechner
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
— Frederick Buechner
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.
— Frederick Buechner
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
— Frederick Buechner
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
— Frederick Buechner
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
— Frederick Buechner