Quotes from Frederick Buechner

When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you are, watch your feet. Because where your feet take you, that is who you are.

Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.

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.

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

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.

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

God himself does not give answers. He gives himself.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

Without somehow destroying me in the process, how could God reveal himself in a way that would leave no room for doubt? If there were no room for doubt, there would be no room for me.

To believe in God is to give your heart to God.

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.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

We learn to praise God not by paying compliments but by paying attention.

We have God's joy in our blood.

Faith in God is less apt to proceed from miracles than miracles from faith in God.

Wether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.

There is no event so common place but that God is present within it, always hidden, always leaving you room to recognize Him or not to recognize Him.

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

To be bored is to turn a cold shoulder to engage all that God is and has for you in the moment.

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

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

Go where your best prayers take you.