Frederick Buechner Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christmas, Home, Heart

• 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 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

• And there are other dangers potentially more dangerous than even nuclear war. There is AIDS. There is terrorism. There are drugs and more to the point the darkness of our time that makes people seek escape in drugs. There is the slow poisoning of what we call "the environment" of all things as if with that absurdly antiseptic phrase we can conceal from ourselves that what we are really poisoning is home, is here, is us.

  Frederick Buechner

  War, Home, People

• The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a man starting a fire shields the flame. When Sarah was about to die childless, the Fear gave her a son. When Abraham was about to slaughter the son, the Fear gave him the ram. He is always shielding us like a guttering wick, Laughter said, because the fire he is trying to start with us is a fire that the whole world will live to warm its hands at. It is a fire in the dark that will light the whole world home.

  Frederick Buechner

  Laughter, Home, Mean

• When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart. . . . It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

  Frederick Buechner

  Home, Heart, Men

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “The Eyes of the Heart: A Memoir of the Lost and Found”, p.4, Harper Collins

• Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Home, Heart

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.393, Zondervan

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