Frederick Buechner Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• Pay attention to the things that bring a tear to your eye or a lump in your throat because they are signs that the holy is drawing near.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Drawing, Grace

• Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention. They are not only telling you something about the secret of who you are but, more often than not, God is speaking to you through them of the mystery of where you have come from and is summoning you to where, if your soul is to be saved, you should go to next.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Soul, Secret

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.60, Zondervan

• 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

• There 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

  Song, Easter, Book

• Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Eye, Joy

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

• If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Artist, Imagination

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 01, 2017

• Whenever you find tears in your eyes, especially unexpected tears, it is well to pay the closest attention.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Tears, Attention

• They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's work as for a day's. They are prepared for a mustard-seed kingdom of God no bigger than the eye of a newt but not for the great banyan it becomes with birds in its branches singing Mozart. They are prepared for the potluck supper at First Presbyterian but not for the marriage supper of the lamb.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Giving, Bird

• She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Dark, Reality

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.21, Zondervan

• Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Pain, Sadness

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

• Don't let your life just go in one eye and out the other.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye

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

• Each one of us could describe his or her life as a sacred journey. You are journeying from the beginning to the end, and what makes it sacred is that in the process of this journey you encounter the holy in various forms which, unless you have your eyes open, you might not even notice.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Journey, Might

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Meaningful, Dream, Religious

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