One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we… — 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
It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church… — 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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and… — 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
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of… — 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… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Much as we wish, not one of us can bring back yesterday or shape tomorrow. Only today is ours, and it will… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about… — 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
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
Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business -… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people… — 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
Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze… — 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
![“When [our secrets] are sad and hurtful secrets, like my father's death, we can in a way honor the hurt by letting ourselves feel it as we never let ourselves feel it before, and then, having felt it, by laying it aside; we can start to take care of ourselves the way we take care of people we love.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a6a/frederick-buechner-883_care_when-our-secrets-are-sad-and-hurtful-sec_2037703.jpg)
![“Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be…” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/cf2/frederick-buechner-883_christian_jesus-doesn-t-say-the-religion-founded-i_2148542.jpg)
![“The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business - funerals and where do you want to be buried - and I thought if anything were to be inscribed on my tombstone, I said let it be that.” quote by Frederick Buechner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f74/frederick-buechner-883_birthday_the-other-day-the-way-people-do-who-are_2742577.jpg)
