Frederick Buechner Quotes

The visible church is all the people who get together from time to time in God’s name. Anybody can find out who they are by going to look. The invisible church is all the people God uses for hands and feet in this world. Nobody can find out who they are except God. Think of […]

If somebody claims that no rational person can take a book seriously which assumes that the world was created in six days and man in an afternoon, ask him if he can take Shakespeare seriously whose scientific knowledge would have sent a third-grader into peals of laughter. Finally this. If you look “at” a window, […]

Beauty is to the soul as food is to the body. It fills a need in us that nothing else can fill.

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving […]