Quotes from Frederick Buechner
There 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.
- Frederick Buechner
Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?
- Frederick Buechner
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
- Frederick Buechner
We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
- Frederick Buechner
...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.
- Frederick Buechner
Go where your best prayers take you.
- Frederick Buechner
Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.
- Frederick Buechner
Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and the storm within.
- Frederick Buechner
Becoming a Christian was terribly helpful to me. I can't imagine finding my way without it. I think it can be very crucially important to ally yourself with some religion.
- Frederick Buechner
Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.
- Frederick Buechner
Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone if it bleeds to death.
- Frederick Buechner
The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
- Frederick Buechner