Frederick Buechner Quotes About Well Being

Quotes about: Well Being

• In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Jesus, Mean

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

• My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

  Frederick Buechner

  Prayer, Children, Air

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

• The difference to me is not between the believers on one hand and the nonbelievers on the other hand. It's between people who carry in their hearts some sense of what the word "God," at least to me, means, which is a loving, creating, everlastingly renewing presence deeply concerned with the well-being of the earth and all its creatures.

  Frederick Buechner

  Mean, Heart, Differences

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

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