Quote

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

Frederick Buechner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
Autobiographer
Novelist
Poet
Theologian
Writer
New York City
New York
Carl Frederick Buechner
Grace
Faith
Given
Something
Never

More quotes by Frederick Buechner

Image
I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters, a fictional world - to listen to that world, to search.
Frederick Buechner
Image
To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, I believe in my friend.
Frederick Buechner
Image
The sacred moments, the moments of miracle, are often the everyday moments.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.
Frederick Buechner
Image
To believe in God is to give your heart to God.
Frederick Buechner
Image
A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.
Frederick Buechner
Image
When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Go where your best prayers take you.
Frederick Buechner
Image
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
Image
She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.
Frederick Buechner
Image
If you want to be holy, be kind.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Listen. Your life is happening. You are happening. Think back on your journey. The music of your life.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
Frederick Buechner
Image
If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.
Frederick Buechner
Image
I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Frederick Buechner
Image
Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery 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.
Frederick Buechner