I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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
No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life... — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business -… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they]… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't think Christ would give a hoot whether you mentioned Christ to them or not. What matters - I'm speaking arrogantly… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of… — 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
At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns 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
![“The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f74/frederick-buechner-883_birthday_the-other-day-the-way-people-do-who-are_2742577.jpg)
![“I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/90b/frederick-buechner-883_believe_i-believe-with-the-best-of-who-i-am-in-g_2743007.png)
![“I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/87d/frederick-buechner-883_appreciate_i-don-t-know-that-it-makes-any-differenc_1226302.png)
![“Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a28/frederick-buechner-883_beautiful_everybody-prays-whether-you-think-of-it_2419045.jpg)
