Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to… — 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
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — 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
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
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
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
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
Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally… — 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
I don't want to give the impression that I'm a great Bible reader. I don't sit down every day and read for… — 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
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
If our pain doesn't destroy us, it just might transform us into truly human beings at last. — 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