Frederick BuechnerRemember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.361Sadness
Frederick BuechnerOf the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confro… ▶374DeathReadingSadness
Frederick BuechnerLaugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.364Humor
Frederick BuechnerListen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy … ▶353LifeLoveReading
Frederick BuechnerFor outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through whic… ▶364LoveThought
Frederick BuechnerWhat's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup. ✨ FaceBook post byFrederick Buechner from Apr 24, 2015<… ▶376DeathLifeReading
Frederick BuechnerMy story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours. 376Reading
Frederick BuechnerGo where your best prayers take you. ✨ FaceBook post byFrederick Buechner from Aug 22, 2013354Reading
Frederick BuechnerPay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.344Hope
Frederick BuechnerThe Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not… ▶377HumanityLovePhilosophy
Frederick BuechnerWhat'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. The silence is so fathomless that prayer… ▶333LoveReadingTime
Frederick BuechnerThus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are. <… ▶322Sadness
Frederick BuechnerThe grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beau… ▶355LifeLoveReading
Frederick BuechnerAnd because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny i… ▶356LovePolitics
Frederick BuechnerWhen someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us. 312LifeLove
Frederick BuechnerLike Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream o… ▶334Time
Frederick BuechnerIf you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.378LovePolitics
Frederick Buechner. . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the… ▶301HumorLifeLove
Frederick Buechner... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all ✨ FaceBook post byFrederick Buechner from Jul 28, 2016291Reading
Frederick BuechnerTo be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our … ▶346DeathLoveReading
Frederick BuechnerListen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.302LifeThought
Frederick BuechnerThe birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. ✨ Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). The life of Jesus, Gramercy325Life
Frederick BuechnerGod in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible.347Reflection
Frederick BuechnerAlmost nothing that makes any real difference can be proved. ✨ Frederick Buechner (2009). Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith, p.110, Zondervan314HopeReading
Frederick BuechnerWe find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old. This seems to be close to the heart of that mystery. I know no more now than… ▶281DeathLove
Frederick BuechnerWhatever 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 the gift of who you alone are; your way of see… ▶325Life
Frederick BuechnerThere is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.325Time
Frederick BuechnerWhenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.369Love
Frederick BuechnerFaith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway. ✨ Frederick Buechner (1973). Wishful thinking: a theological ABC., Harper San Francisco304HopeThought
Frederick BuechnerLord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.315Thought
