All Frederick Buechner Quotes
- Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that… All
- If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that… Anything Else
- I not only have my secrets, I am my secrets. And you are yours. Our secrets are human secrets, and our trusting each other enough… Each
- To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even… Alive
- ... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all All
- Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies,… Age
- It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart. Apart
- You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your… Bye
- When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have left some mark of who I… Carried
- The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet. Calls
- Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement… All
- By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work… Calls
- Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention. Attention
- Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. Ants
- The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in… Another Life
- The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out… All
- I believe that what Genesis suggests is that this original self, with the print of God's thumb still upon it, is the most essential part… All
- What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch.… Already Knows
- My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will… All
- All 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure… All