To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.
Frederick BuechnerThe birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.
Frederick BuechnerWe must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.
Frederick BuechnerSpeak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
Frederick Buechner