Frederick Buechner Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, 'I can't prove a thing, but there's something about his eyes and his voice. There's something about the way he carries his head, his hands, the way he carries his cross-the way he carries me.'

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Eye, Hands

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

• The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Giving, World, Christ

• 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

• We 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 Buechner

  World, Matter, Sake

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

• In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us.

  Frederick Buechner

  Finals, Christ, Eternal Life

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

• For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

  Frederick Buechner

  Home, People, Profound

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

• Our 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 Buechner

  Jesus, Father, Our World

• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Judging

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

• To believe in Christ is to give your heart to Christ, which means not to affirm things about Christ, but it's like what you mean when you say, "I believe in my friend."

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Mean, Heart

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

• I don't think Christ would give a hoot whether you mentioned Christ to them or not. What matters - I'm speaking arrogantly and absurdly - to him is, are you living the kind of life that I embodied? Whether you believe in Christ or don't, who cares?

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Thinking, What Matters

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

• I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Passion, Bored

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

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