To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“We believe in God when for one reason or another we choose to do so. We believe God when somehow we run… — 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
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
I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to… — 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
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can… — 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
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
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
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is… — 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
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
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
“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
“I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best.… — 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
![“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/quotes/i/90b/frederick-buechner-883_believe_i-believe-with-the-best-of-who-i-am-in-g_2743007.png)
![“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/quotes/i/9d5/frederick-buechner-883_believe_to-believe-is-not-intellectual-assent-ye_635623.png)
