Frederick Buechner Quotes: 10

• The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

  Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC

• 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.

  Now and Then: A Memoir of Vocation

• Go where your best prayers take you.

• Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

  The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction

• 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 Alphabet of Grace

• 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.

• If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

  Whistling in the Dark: A Doubter's Dictionary

• Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

• To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.

  A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces

• Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

  The Magnificent Defeat