Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Through the power that memory gives us of thinking, feeling, imagining our way back through time we can at long last finally… — 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
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to… — 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 Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all… — 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
Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to… — 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
God knows we have our own demons to be cast out, our own uncleanness to be cleansed. Neurotic anxiety happens to be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The other day, the way people [do] who are approaching their 80th birthday, I was thinking about all the last business -… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt?… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of… — 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