What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again… — 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
He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party… — 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
