Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.” — 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
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
What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed… — 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
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
Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We… — 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
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
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
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
Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I don't think Christ would give a hoot whether you mentioned Christ to them or not. What matters - I'm speaking arrogantly… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“One life on this earth is all we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem… — 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
. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in… — 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
“Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I believe that whether we recognize him or not, or believe in him or not, or even know his name, again and… — 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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