Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon myster...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Something terrible happens, and you might say, "God help us!", or "Jesus Christ!" -- the poor, cripp...
FREDERICK BUECHNER According to Jesus, by far the most important thing about praying is to keep at it... Be importunate...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Pay mind to your own life, your own health, and wholeness. A bleeding heart is of no help to anyone ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER And now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Everybody prays whether you think of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when someth...
FREDERICK BUECHNER A miracle is when the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. A miracle is when one plus one equ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips ov...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Whether your faith is that there is a God or that there is not a God, if you don't have any doubts y...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are bec...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else'...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotles...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Hol...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imag...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, beari...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst
FREDERICK BUECHNER In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying to figure out where w...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Go where your best prayers take you.
FREDERICK BUECHNER You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you ca...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are b...
FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when some...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and sp...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER [A true atheist is one who is willing to face the full consequences of what it means to say there is...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another d...
FREDERICK BUECHNER What we hunger for perhaps more than anything else is to be known in our full humanness, and yet tha...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The storyteller's claim, I believe, is that life has meaning—that the things that happen to people...
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is little we can point to in our lives as deserving anything but God's wrath. Our best moments...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We try so hard as Christians. We think such long thoughts, manipulate such long words, and both list...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for...
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is always the poet, the lunatic, the lover; there is always the religious man who is a queer m...
FREDERICK BUECHNER And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love hi...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If we are to believe he is really alive with all that that implies, then we have to believe without ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us -...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and jo...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to kn...
FREDERICK BUECHNER For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The love for equals is a human thing--of friend for friend, brother for brother. It is to love what ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
FREDERICK BUECHNER There is a fragrance in the air, a certain passage of a song, an old photograph falling out from the...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Matthew lists Rahab as one of the ancestresses of the Lord Jesus Christ (Matthew 1:5), and that may ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The Faces of Jesus
FREDERICK BUECHNER Laugh till you weep. Weep till there’s nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it’...
FREDERICK BUECHNER God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst b...
FREDERICK BUECHNER If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are pe...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You use your real voice with those you love, and you cannot be phony with those who know you well.
FREDERICK BUECHNER The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of A...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We weren't born yesterday. We are from [New York]. But we are also from somewhere else. We are from ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived...
FREDERICK BUECHNER ... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You wake up on a winter morning and pull up the shade, and what lay there the evening before is no l...
FREDERICK BUECHNER It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where t...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Or I think of breathing - the body in its wisdom taking its sustenance out of the air even when the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER We cannot make ourselves known to each other; we are not healed and forgiven by each other’s prese...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Not the least of my problems is that I can hardly even imagine what kind of an experience a genuine,...
FREDERICK BUECHNER The world is in pain, and its pain makes strangers of us all and ties my tongue in a lover’s knot.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Come unto me. Come unto me, you say. All right then, dear my Lord. I will try in my own absurd way. ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Thus, when you wake up in the morning, called by God to be a self again, if you want to know who you...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Sometimes the things that do not quite happen in your life count for more than the things that do.
FREDERICK BUECHNER Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which...
FREDERICK BUECHNER I have come to believe that by and large the human family all has the same secrets, which are both v...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Remember that the lives of other people are not your business. They are their business. They are God...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Stop trying to protect, to rescue, to judge, to manage the lives around you . . . remember that the ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER Commemoration of Giles of Provence, Hermit, c.710 To do for yourself the best that you have it i...
FREDRICK BUECHNER The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
WILLIAM BUECHNER The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.
PROFESSOR WILLIAM BUECHNER They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
CARL W. BUECHNER Tears are words the heart can't express
CARL W. BUECHNER They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel. A man is too apt t...
CARL W. BUECHNER To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.
CARL W. BUECHNER One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
CARL W. BUECHNER People are disturbed not by things but by the view they take of them.They may forget what you said, ...
CARL W. BUECHNER The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
CARL W. BUECHNER Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept ...
CARL W. BUECHNER The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whether you're a newspaper journalist, a lawyer, a doctor. You have to organize your thoughts.
FREDERICK WISEMAN Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What s...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS That which is inhuman cannot be divine.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS What to the Slave is the 4th of July.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A man without force, is without the essential dignity of humanity. Human nature is so constituted, ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, Tender tones...
FREDERICK TENNYSON "Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!'
ADMIRAL FREDERICK The Third Fleet's sunken and damaged ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward ...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK Kill Japs, Kill Japs, Kill more Japs!
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are fo...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK Before we're done with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in Hell!
ADMIRAL FREDERICK I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There are no great men. Just great challenges which ordinary men,out of necessity, are forced by cir...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to de...
ADMIRAL FREDERICK For it is not light that is needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate a...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored mans political hopes and the ark...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I knew that however bad the Republican party was, the Democratic party was much worse. The elements ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in larg...
FREDERICK SAUNDERS I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than t...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky — her grand old woods...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If you keep working at it, in the last analysis, you win. They've got to kill us a hundred times. Al...
FREDERICK SMITH Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things nee...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor.
FREDERICK FARRAR Man?s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he ...
FREDERICK BAILES Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
FREDERICK DOUGLAS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thun...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but ra...
FREDERICK KEONIG The key to your universe is that you can choose.
CARL FREDERICK A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to an...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Softly the loud peal dies, In passing winds it drowns, But breathes, like perfect joys, ...
FREDERICK TENNYSON We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, 'Why did this happen to me?' unless we ask the same que...
FREDERICK KEONIG I do my thing and you do yours. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are ...
FREDERICK PERLS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicio...
FREDERICK POLLOCK What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
FREDERICK SMITH The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
FREDERICK SMITH Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plo...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plow...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Now whatever the origin of this apparently meaningless jumble of ideas may have been, it is really a...
FREDERICK SODDY No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end faste...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Scientific research is one of the most exciting and rewarding of occupations.
FREDERICK SANGER The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small Am...
FREDERICK REINES It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm,...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS After taking my B.A. degree in 1939 I remained at the University for a further year to take an advan...
FREDERICK SANGER Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other p...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS One and God make a majority.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this bo...
FREDERICK WEISEL These hands which stretch out, implore, beg, then rise to the head in a gesture of calamity.
FREDERICK LEBOYER Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.
FREDERICK SODDY America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the fu...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS To-day it appears as though it may well be altogether abolished in the future as it has to some exte...
FREDERICK SODDY I recognize the Republican party as the sheet anchor of the colored man's political hopes and th...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowl...
FREDERICK SANGER A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a gre...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS I could, as a free man, look across the bay toward the Eastern Shore where I was born a slave.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS There is not a man beneath the canopy of Heaven who does not know that slavery is wrong for him.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers on. Once h...
FREDERICK SEITZ I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted
FREDERICK DOUGLASS In thinking of America, I sometimes find myself admiring her bright blue sky-her grand old woods-her...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one clas...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS But when ye come, and all the flowers are dying,
If I am dead, as dead I well may be,
You'...
FREDERICK WEATHERLY The pure air and dazzling snow belong to things beyond the reach of all personal feeling, almost bey...
FREDERICK SODDY Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your foot on first.
FREDERICK WILCOX We will by conscious command evolve cerebral centers which will permit us to use powers that we now ...
FREDERICK TILNEY The roads we take are more important than the goals we announce. Decisions determine destiny.
FREDERICK SPEAKMAN There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is not to be true to the best we k...
FREDERICK FARRAR Man’s power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever h...
FREDERICK BAILES You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the...
FREDERICK WISEMAN The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any peop...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Nonsense is to sense, as shade to light; it heightens effect
FREDERICK SAUNDERS People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Do you suffer your thoughts to tamper with evil; and to dally with wrong-doing? If so; you are not s...
FREDERICK FARRAR Two men look out through the same bars: One sees the mud and one the stars.
FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE