Frederick Buechner Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• 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.

• 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.

• It'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 Buechner

  People, Leaving, Church

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

• I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

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

• The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

  Frederick Buechner

  Church, Tradition, Reason

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

• At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Voice, Missing

• What gets me back to church, I think, is thinking maybe this time that question "Is it true?" will be answered, not just in terms of somebody saying, "Yes, it's true," but something will happen in a sermon or maybe shuffling up to the Eucharist, or in the old lady who's sitting beside me with a Bible - maybe something will happen which will show me that it's true. So I go back thinking, maybe this time I'll be lucky.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Church, Saying Yes

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

• I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Book, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (1983). “Now and Then”, HarperCollins Publishers

• I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Believe, Heart

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

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