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
Phrases like Worship Service or Service of Worship are tautologies. To worship God means to serve him. Basically there are two ways… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer… — 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
There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of… — 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
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it… — 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
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark… — 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
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — 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
Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed. — 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
