Quotes from Frederick Buechner

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

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.

...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.

God doesn't reveal his grand design. He reveals Himself.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

if you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving.

If you are going to proclaim the Christian faith, speak about those dimensions of it which you['ve] had some experience with.

The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness.