All Frederick Buechner Quotes
- The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things… Clear
- One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God Attempt
- They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for… Banyan
- For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost. Entirely
- To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift. Gift
- Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed. Deep
- Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. Autobiographical
- Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the… All
- Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death. Anyone
- Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something… Ah
- I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why… Breath
- In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound… Advent
- Grace is something you can never get but only be given. Faith
- To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between… Able
- People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them. They may forget what you said, but they will never forget… Disturbed
- Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. Afraid
- To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to… All
- Go where your best prayers take you. Best
- She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not… All
- We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have… Careful