“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I say, “You may be right, but don’t knock it until you’re tried it. Don’t say, ‘I think it’s worthless; therefore I’m… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not… — 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
“Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital… — 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
“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to… — 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
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back,… — 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
