What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When friends speak overmuch of times gone by, often it's because they sense their present time is turning them from friends to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The house lights go off and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the… — 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
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
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