Quotes by Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner

. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

Giving

Hands

Peace

. . 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.

Crazy

Running

Stars

… in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

Joy

Long

Running

… the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can–the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn’t even flicker.

Flames

Rain

Winter

…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.

Godly

Way

Writing

…words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

Magic

A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can’t prove a thing, but there’s something about his eyes and his voice. There’s something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.’

Christian

Eye

Hands

A Christian isn’t necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

Christian

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

Faith

Hands

Latin

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

Miracle

Plus

Thousand

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Another Day

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Artist

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Atheist

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Be Careful

Be Kind

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Beautiful

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Believe

Best Prayer

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Blow

Book

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Christ

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Quotes by Frederick Buechner

Frederick Buechner

. . . [T]o live not with hands clenched to grasp, to strike, to hold tight to a life that is always slipping away the more tightly we hold it, but . . . to live with the hands stretched out both to give and receive with gladness.

… in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

… the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can–the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on white clapboard with the shadows of ferns and wash on the line, the wildness of a winter storm when in the house the flame of a candle doesn’t even flicker.

…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.

…words are not only meaning but music and magic and power.

A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can’t prove a thing, but there’s something about his eyes and his voice. There’s something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.’

A Christian isn’t necessarily any nicer than anybody else, just better informed.

A God in the hand is worth two in the bush.

A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand.

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