Frederick Buechner

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 by.

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

Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

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 never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

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

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical.

Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the worlds deep need meet.

Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. Theres no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks.

Remember me not for the ill I've done but for the good I've dreamed.

Laugh till you weep. Weep till theres nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end its all one.

If you want to be holy be kind.

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

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.

Purpose is the place where your deep gladness meets the world's needs.

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody elses skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

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

The grace of God means something like Here is your life. You might never have been but you are because the party wouldnt have been complete without you.

Vocation is the place where your deep gladness meets the worlds deep need .

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things happen. Dont be afraid.

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

It's less the words they say than those they leave unsaid that split old friends apart.

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.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

You can kiss your family and friends good bye and put miles between you but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart your mind your stomach because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

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.

For as long as you remember me, I am never entirely lost.