Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to… — 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
Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“We Catch Glimmers June 26 RELIGION AS A word points to that area of human experience where in one way or another… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very… — 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
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“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 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
