Quotes from Frederick Buechner
Thus, 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.
- Frederick Buechner
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
- Frederick Buechner
A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
- Frederick Buechner
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
- Frederick Buechner
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
- Frederick Buechner
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
- Frederick Buechner
One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
- Frederick Buechner
To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
- Frederick Buechner
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
- Frederick Buechner
We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.
- Frederick Buechner
We have God's joy in our blood.
- Frederick Buechner
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
- Frederick Buechner