Frederick Buechner Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, God, Christian

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

• Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day's chalking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sleep, Night, Grace

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 01, 2016

• Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Spiritual, Pain

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 12, 2014

• The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

  Frederick Buechner

  Healing, Godly, Generosity

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 14, 2016

• 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

• The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. I am with you. Nothing can ever separate us. It's for you I created the universe. I love you. There's only one catch. Like any other gift, the gift of grace can be yours only if you'll reach out and take it. Maybe being able to reach out and take it is a gift too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Beautiful, Party

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jan 22, 2013

• What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Heart, Dark

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

• To remember the past is to see that we are here today by grace, that we have survived as a gift.

  Frederick Buechner

  Past, Grace, Today

• Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Good Night, Dream, Rain

• He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Years, Grace

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Apr 07, 2015

• Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Religious, Grace

• Grace is something you can never get but only be given.

  Frederick Buechner

  Faith, Grace, Given

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 15, 2017

• If you want to talk about grace, if you want to talk about revelation, talk about your life with some depth, which doesn't mean lurid revelations as much as simply looking at your own deep experiences and describing them as they are.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Grace, Depth

  Frederick Buechner's Door Interview, www.jmm.org.au. October 13, 2003.

• The fearsome blessing of that hard time continues to work itself out in my life in the same way we're told the universe is still hurtling through outer space under the impact of the great cosmic explosion.... I think grace sometimes explodes into our lives like that-sending our pain, terror, astonishment hurtling through inner space until by grace they become Orion, Cassiopeia, Polaris to give us our bearings, to bring us into something like full being at last.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, Thinking, Hard Times

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