Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.
Frederick BuechnerWherever people love each other and are true to each other and take risks for each other, God is with them and for them and they are doing God's will.
Frederick BuechnerFaith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.
Frederick BuechnerIt's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.
Frederick BuechnerWe find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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