Time Quotes by Frederick Buechner

To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

— Frederick Buechner

I'm a hopeless prayer. I think somewhere in there I spend a great deal of time at it.

— Frederick Buechner

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

— Frederick Buechner

Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

— Frederick Buechner

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.

— Frederick Buechner

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

— Frederick Buechner

The best moments any of us have as human beings are those moments when for a little while it is possible to…

— Frederick Buechner

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

You hear as many things as you would imagine. I hear voices of people I loved once. I hear moments that took…

— Frederick Buechner

“Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a…

— Frederick Buechner

“Every person has one particular time in his life when he is more beautiful than he is ever going to be again.…

— Frederick Buechner

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment,…

— Frederick Buechner

Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk…

— Frederick Buechner

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than…

— Frederick Buechner

Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally…

— Frederick Buechner

In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be…

— Frederick Buechner

“His was the holiest face I ever saw. My very name turned holy on his tongue. If he had bade me rise…

— Frederick Buechner

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a…

— Frederick Buechner

What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not…

— Frederick Buechner

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means…

— Frederick Buechner

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

“What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet that is often…

— Frederick Buechner

The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the…

— Frederick Buechner

What makes me a believer is that from time to time, going back almost as far as my memory will go back,…

— Frederick Buechner

“The passage from Genesis points to a mystery greater still. It says that we came from farther away than space and longer…

— Frederick Buechner

“The word longing comes from the same root as the word long in the sense of length in either time or space…

— Frederick Buechner

“From the essay on Love, in which he describes as a wilderness experience his daily visits with his wife to a hospital…

— Frederick Buechner

“The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where…

— Frederick Buechner

“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered…

— Frederick Buechner

“Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way.…

— Frederick Buechner

“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where we have…

— Frederick Buechner

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

“Maybe the most sacred function of memory is just that: to render the distinction between past, present, and future ultimately meaningless; to…

— Frederick Buechner

I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years…

— Frederick Buechner

That's five friends, one each for Jesu's wounds, and Godric bears their mark still on what's left of him as in their…

— Frederick Buechner

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze…

— Frederick Buechner

. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes…

— Frederick Buechner

“If I were called upon to state in a few words the essence of everything I was trying to say both as…

— Frederick Buechner

“How Adewen stuffed her braid in her mouth at that! Or she'd cover her mirth with her hands and shake till you'd…

— Frederick Buechner