All Frederick Buechner Quotes
- Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. Attention
- From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to the frog. Pay… All
- Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you,… Each
- A God in the hand is worth two in the bush. Bush
- Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things. Grammar
- If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child. Child
- Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway. Faith
- You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed. Blessed
- The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the… Calls
- Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about… Anymore
- Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world. Calling
- Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is… Achieve
- Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing. Last
- What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. All
- ON HER DEATHBED, Gertrude Stein is said to have asked, 'What is the answer?' Then, after a long silence, 'What is the question?' Don't start… Answer
- Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light,… Along
- A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's… Carries
- A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed. Any
- Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all. All
- Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something… Attention