The magic of words is that they have power to do more than convey meaning; not only do they have the power to make things clear, they make things happen.
Frederick BuechnerIn New England, especially, [faith] is like sex. It's very personal. You don't bring it out and talk about it.
Frederick BuechnerLike a house in the rain, books were havens of permanence and protection from whatever it was that as a child I needed protection from.
Frederick BuechnerOur father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Frederick BuechnerThere is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the pages of a book, the sound of somebody's voice in the hall that makes your heart leap and fills your eyes with tears. Who can say when or how it will be that something easters up out of the dimness to remind us of a time before we were born and after we will die?
Frederick Buechner