I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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
If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best.… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as… — 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
Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk… — 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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