If the truth is worth telling, it is worth making a fool of yourself to tell it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and… — 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
I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — 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… — 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… — 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,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of… — 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
If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for. — 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
The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business -… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they]… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about… — 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
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
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![“The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f74/frederick-buechner-883_birthday_the-other-day-the-way-people-do-who-are_2742577.jpg)
![“I believe with the best of who I am in God, but I sometimes think if anybody would watch me and [they] didn't believe a damn thing, they would have a very hard time deciding which of us is which.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/90b/frederick-buechner-883_believe_i-believe-with-the-best-of-who-i-am-in-g_2743007.jpg)
![“Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf2/frederick-buechner-883_christian_jesus-doesn-t-say-the-religion-founded-i_2148542.jpg)
