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8 quotes by Frederick Buechner

Carl Frederick Buechner is an American writer and theologian. Born July 11, 1926 in New York City, he is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty published books thus far. 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...
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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.

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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can... →

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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... →

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

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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan... →

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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

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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... →

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