You can survive on your own; you can grow strong on your own; you can prevail on your own; but you cannot become human on your own. Frederick Buechner More Quotes by Frederick Buechner More Quotes From Frederick Buechner Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next. Frederick Buechner eyesoulsecret Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. Frederick Buechner beautifulinspirationallife True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven. Frederick Buechner angelsimplehands 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. Frederick Buechner forgivenessignorancepeace What deadens us most to God's presence within us, I think, is the inner dialogue that we are continually engaged in with ourselves, the endless chatter of human thought. Frederick Buechner endlessdialoguethinking Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing. Frederick Buechner resurrectionlastsmean To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend. Frederick Buechner forgivenesspriderights My story is important not because it is mine, God knows, but because if I tell it anything like right, the chances are you will recognize that in many ways it is also yours… it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity, as I have long believed and often said, that God makes himself known to each of us more powerfully and personally. If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but also spiritually. Frederick Buechner tracklongmean 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 personshelping-otherssuffering Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength. Frederick Buechner sourcehurtinspirational 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. Frederick Buechner gracesleepnight Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you... Remember that the lives of others are not your business. They are their business. They are God's busineess... Even your own life is not your business. It also is God's Business. Leave it to God. Frederick Buechner judgingremembertrying . . some moment happens in your life that you say yes right up to the roots of your hair, that makes it worth having been born just to have happen. laughing with somebody till the tears run down your cheeks. waking up to the first snow. being in bed with somebody you love... whether you thank god for such a moment or thank your lucky stars, it is a moment that is trying to open up your whole life. If you turn your back on such a moment and hurry along to business as usual, it may lose you the ball game. if you throw your arms around such a moment and hug it like crazy, it may save your soul. Frederick Buechner crazystarsrunning Wherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will. Frederick Buechner love-each-otherriskpeople Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes. Frederick Buechner eyehealingjoy Go where your best prayers take you. Frederick Buechner best-prayerprayer 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. Frederick Buechner christiangodlife Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true. Frederick Buechner speakjesus The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are. Frederick Buechner givingworldchrist If you want to be holy, be kind. Frederick Buechner be-kindholywant
