frederick buechner

“ A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equals a thousand. ”

“ The trouble with really seeing and really hearing is that then we really have to do something about what we have seen and heard. ”

“ One life on this earth is all that we get. Whether it is enough or not enough. ”

“ You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary ”

“ It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, people have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him. ”

“ The chief drawback of anger is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. ”

“ The pride that keeps us from forgiving is the same pride which keeps us from accepting forgiveness. ”

“ I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. ”

“ 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. ”

“ Beneath our clothes, our reputations, our pretensions, beneath our religion or lack of it, we are all vulnerable both to the storm without and to the storm within. ”