73 Inspiring Quotes By Frederick Buechner On Faith, Take It
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
Go where your best prayers take you.
Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.
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.
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.
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 Doyle.
A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.
To be wise is to be eternally curious.
Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....
The place to which God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.
It’s less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.
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.
Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.
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.
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.
God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.
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.
Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.
You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own.
Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
