“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of autobiography, which also involved listening. — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Preaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at… — 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
I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the… — 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
