Frederick Buechner Way Quotations

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

...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.

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.

You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary

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

I pray for people I love when they are sick. I pray that way.

The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

It's very easy in a way, horrible in some ways, but simply to give up the whole thing, to say, "Well, the hell with it, as far as I'm concerned life is pointless and [so] live the fullest, most successfully self-fulfilling life you can and let the rest go hang" - I've never reached that point in my life.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right, say it eloquently, say it truthfully, say it honestly, that when I hear it said in ways that none of those adverbs would describe I find myself so repelled that it almost shuts my mind off.

I'm not going to spend any time looking into myself the way one who prays does. Maybe that's an even worse mistake than praying might be.

Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.