At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and… — 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
Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
But it has been my experience that the risks are faroutweighed by the rewards, chief of which is when you speak to… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded… — 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
Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language. — 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
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
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
We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not… — 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