Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

- Frederick Buechner

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze of unearthly light, not in the midst of a …

- Frederick Buechner

One life on this earth is all that we get, whether it is enough or not enough, and the obvious conclusion would seem to be that at the very least we …

- Frederick Buechner

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

- Frederick Buechner

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

- Frederick Buechner

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be anoth…

- Frederick Buechner

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you…

- Frederick Buechner

We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.

- Frederick Buechner

Lord, catch me off guard today. Surprise me with some moment of beauty or pain so that at least for the moment, I may be startled into seeing that yo…

- Frederick Buechner