Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength. — 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
. . . [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
Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge… — 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
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
“One summer day I lay upon the grass. I’d sinned, no matter how, and in sin’s wake there came a kind of… — 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
![“. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/16a/frederick-buechner-883_giving_t-o-live-not-with-hands-clenched-to-gras_888838.jpg)
