“ I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered around among all those gardens and fountains and statues, I had a sense that the… Frederick Buechner
“ Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they had it then to come alive for us and in us and to make us more alive within… Frederick Buechner
“ 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 requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn'… Frederick Buechner
“ We are above all things loved--that is the good news of the gospel--and loved not just the way we turn up on Sundays in our best clothes and on our best behavior and with our best feet forward, but lo… Frederick Buechner
“ More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading them part of who you are, especially if they are the words of exceptionally promising writers… Frederick Buechner
“ It is within the bonds of marriage that I, for one, found a greater freedom to be and to become and to share myself thatn I can imaine ever having found in any other kind of relationship. Frederick Buechner
“ The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence of struggle, but the presence of love. -p83 Frederick Buechner
“ Vocation” comes from the Latin vocare (to call) and means the work a man is called to by God.There are all different kinds of voices calling you to all different kinds of work, and the problem is to f… Frederick Buechner
“ A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. Frederick Buechner
“ Is it true, what Jesus believed, this Truth that he died for and lived for? Maybe the only way to know finally this side of falling off that precipice ourselves is to stop speaking and thinking and re… Frederick Buechner
“ 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 really asked, expecting an answer. Frederick Buechner
“ 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 the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if eve… Frederick Buechner
“ It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon whi… Frederick Buechner
“ There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer mixture of the three. Frederick Buechner
“ Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to… 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, th… Frederick Buechner
“ It hardly matters how the body of Jesus came to be missing because in the last analysis what convinced the people that he had risen from the dead was not the absence of his corpse but his living prese… Frederick Buechner
“ Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp. Frederick Buechner
“ Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good new… Frederick Buechner
