“We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from Oz, from the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp. — 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
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The only patriots worth their salt are the ones who love their country enough to see that in a nuclear age it… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and… — 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
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Believing in him is not the same as believing things about him such as that he was born of a virgin and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it. — 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