All Frederick Buechner Quotes
- Five friends I had and two of them snakes. Five
- The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life… Become Human
- The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. Birth
- Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is an on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all.… All
- Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's… Acquittal
- Not to love is, psychically, spiritually, to die. To live for yourself alone, hoarding your life for your own sake, is in almost every sense… Almost Every
- To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of… Always Full
- One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be… All
- When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is… Ahead
- Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need. Greatest
- God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself. Design
- The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. Accepting
- Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not… Always Easy
- It is important to tell our secrets too because ... it makes it easier for other people to tell us a secret or two of… All
- The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are. Christ
- Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than… Faith
- All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is. All
- There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not… Always Hidden
- Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be… All
- Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home. All