The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Laugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the… — 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
All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
