Life Quotes by Frederick Buechner

The world needs people who save lives.

— Frederick Buechner

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

— Frederick Buechner

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

— Frederick Buechner

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the…

— Frederick Buechner

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

— Frederick Buechner

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.

— Frederick Buechner

“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

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

Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it…

— Frederick Buechner

“With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.”

— Frederick Buechner

“Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.”

— Frederick Buechner

Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which,…

— 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

“Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again.…

— Frederick Buechner

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling…

— Frederick Buechner

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,…

— Frederick Buechner

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

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

— Frederick Buechner

Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in…

— Frederick Buechner

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

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that…

— Frederick Buechner

I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular…

— Frederick Buechner

It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be…

— Frederick Buechner

The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed…

— 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

Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is…

— Frederick Buechner

It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it…

— Frederick Buechner

“The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where…

— Frederick Buechner

“War is hell, but sometimes in the midst of that hell men do things that heaven itself must be proud of. A…

— Frederick Buechner

“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,…

— Frederick Buechner

“Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own…

— Frederick Buechner

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life...

— Frederick Buechner

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

— Frederick Buechner

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

— Frederick Buechner

“It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that…

— Frederick Buechner

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and…

— Frederick Buechner

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

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

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate…

— 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