What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it didfor millions… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
“The things that the world fills time with are enough to turn the heart to stone, but the goodness of time itself is as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but a the same time you carry them with you in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
“How Adewen stuffed her braid in her mouth at that! Or she'd cover her mirth with her hands and shake till you'd think that… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share
