Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my… — 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
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
“We try so hard as Christians. We think such long thoughts, manipulate such long words, and both listen to and preach such… — 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
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
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 we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without proof. And… — 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
“Christ never promises peace in the sense of no more struggle and suffering. Instead, he helps us to struggle and suffer as… — 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
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Avarice, greed, concupiscence and so forth are all based on the mathematical truism that the more you get, the more you have.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what is loving and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital… — 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
