Quotes by : Frederick Buechner

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.

Let the preacher tell the truth. Let him make audible the silence of the news of the world with the sound....

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

They are prepared for a God who strikes hard bargains but not for a God who gives as much for an hour's....

And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him,....

The contradiction is resolved when you realize that for Jesus peace seems to have meant not the absence....

More than the painting you see or the music you hear, the words you read become in the very act of reading....

Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them....