Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner
Carl Frederick Buechneris an American writer and theologian. He is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books. His work encompasses different genres, including fiction, autobiography, essays and sermons, and his career has spanned six decades. Buechner's books have been translated into many languages for publication around the world. He is best known for his works A Long Day's Dying; The Book of Bebb, a tetralogy based on the character Leo Bebb published in 1979;...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 July 1926
CountryUnited States of America
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
...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.
Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.
Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.
At the evening of our day, we shall be judged by our loving.
Envy is the consuming desire to have everybody else as unsuccessful as you are.
Love yourself not in some egocentric, self-serving sense but love yourself the way you would love your friend in the sense of taking care of yourself, nourishing yourself, trying to understand, comfort, and strengthen yourself.
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn't even flicker.
To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.
The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.