All Frederick Buechner Quotes
- if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving. Alive
- The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best. It's the power… All
- The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a… Abraham
- Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst. Craving
- And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths,… All
- For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only… Advent
- Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough. Any
- If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean… Answer
- Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat… Bearing
- We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have… All
- Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp. Beyond
- Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a… Adam
- Of all powers, love is the most powerful and the most powerless. It is the most powerful because it alone can conquer that final and… All
- You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary Enter
- Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your… Able
- Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something… All
- You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on… Become Human
- Many an atheist is a believer without knowing it juast as many a believer is an atheist without knowing it. You can sincerely believe there… Atheist
- The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth… Birth
- 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