Quotes from Frederick Buechner
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
- Frederick Buechner
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 in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
- Frederick Buechner
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, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?
- Frederick Buechner
It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get.
- Frederick Buechner
I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.
- Frederick Buechner
Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.
- Frederick Buechner
Words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in.
- Frederick Buechner
God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.
- Frederick Buechner
Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.
- Frederick Buechner
Grace is something you can never get but only be given.
- Frederick Buechner
If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you've had some experience with.
- Frederick Buechner
The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.
- Frederick Buechner