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
Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to… — 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
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not… — 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
The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best,… — 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
