Grace Quotes by Frederick Buechner

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

— Frederick Buechner

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

— Frederick Buechner

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

— Frederick Buechner

Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough…

— Frederick Buechner

Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs…

— Frederick Buechner

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the…

— Frederick Buechner

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…

— Frederick Buechner

He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man…

— Frederick Buechner

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than…

— Frederick Buechner

If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which…

— Frederick Buechner

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

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

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…

— Frederick Buechner

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

“God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again…

— Frederick Buechner