Frederick Buechner Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and spend the rest of his life remembering you by.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Remember, Be Careful

  Frederick Buechner (1974). “Love Feast”, Scribner

• We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Children, Father

• If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Remembrance, Things To Do

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

• It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Children, Men

• It is the first day because it has never been before and the last day because it will never be again. Be alive, if you can, all through this day - today - of your life. What's to be done? What's to be done? Follow your feet. Put on the coffee. Start the orange juice, the bacon, the toast. Then go wake up your children and your spouse. Think about the work of your hands. Live in the needs of the day.

  Frederick Buechner

  Children, Coffee, Thinking

  Frederick Buechner (1970). “The alphabet of grace”

• I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I can remember, I also loved those books I read and the people I met in them and the worlds they opened up to me. Like 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 Buechner

  Children, Book, Rain

• When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mother, Daughter, Dad

  Frederick Buechner (1988). “Whistling in the dark: an ABC theologized”, Harpercollins

• Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Baseball, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 02, 2015

• Like 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 Buechner

  Children, Rain, Book

• My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Children, Air

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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