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
What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to… — 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
Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them… — 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
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
It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world… — 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
