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Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things."

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "God himself does not give answers. He gives himself."

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.




Frederick Buechner Quotes: "One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God"

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power."

...words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child."

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all."

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.




Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me."

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving."

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven."

True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by."

You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home."

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.




Frederick Buechner Quotes: "To believe in God is to give your heart to God."

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me."

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs."

What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths."

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand."

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 Quotes: "The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around."

The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other."

Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard."

The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "To be wise is to be eternally curious."

To be wise is to be eternally curious.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments."

The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life."

Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it."

You can never be sure whether you are discovering the truth or inventing it.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup."

What's lost is nothing to what's found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "My 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."

My 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.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed."

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for."

If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "...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."

...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 Quotes: "Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical."

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway."

Faith is not being sure where you're going, but going anyway.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving."

At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Grace is something you can never get but only be given."

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention."

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving."

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is."

For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is."

All other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area."

It's not as if I knew answers which I am going to set down in the form of a novel or a memoir or a sermon. It's, rather, I'm going to search myself for what I might have to say in this area.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "We have God's joy in our blood."

We have God's joy in our blood.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God."

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us."

Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "Toleration is often just indifference in disguise."

Toleration is often just indifference in disguise.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed."

A Christian isn't necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for."

It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "God 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."

God 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.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness."

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed."

You do not need to understand healing to be healed or know anything about blessing to be blessed.



Frederick Buechner Quotes: "We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest."

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world takes us, to drift with whatever current happens to be running the strongest.