“What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting… — 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
“With words as valueless as poker chips, we play games whose object it is to keep us from seeing each other's cards.” — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both very telling… — 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
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)
