“... the preacher speaks both the word of tragedy and the word of comedy because they are both of them the truth… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The real turning point in human history is less apt to be the day the wheel is invented or Rome falls than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Once we have seen Him in a stable, we can never be sure where He will appear or to what lengths he… — 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
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I said, 'I'll tell you about shit, Roebuck. Take it from an expert. There's two main things about it. One thing is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may be one reason why… — 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
The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And… — 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
![“He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/7be/frederick-buechner-883_antics_he-jesus-speaks-in-parables-and-though-w_1847001.png)
![“Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/cf2/frederick-buechner-883_christian_jesus-doesn-t-say-the-religion-founded-i_2148542.jpg)
![“To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/9d5/frederick-buechner-883_believe_to-believe-is-not-intellectual-assent-ye_635623.png)
