Frederick Buechner Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Life, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Oct 02, 2015

• She was right that reality can be harsh and that you shut your eyes to it only at your peril because if you do not face up to the enemy in all his dark power, then the enemy will come up from behind some dark day and destoy you while you are facing the other way.

  Frederick Buechner

  Eye, Dark, Reality

  Frederick Buechner (2017). “A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory”, p.21, Zondervan

• The trouble with steeling yourself against the harshness of reality is that the same steel that secures your life against being destroyed secures your life also against being opened up and transformed by the holy power that life itself comes from. You can survive on your own. You can grow strong on your own. You can even prevail on your own. But you cannot become human on your own.

  Frederick Buechner

  Strong, Reality, Steel

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.22, Harper Collins

• I don't know that it makes any difference whether it's at this time or a hundred years before or a hundred years later. I think always it's a matter of simply listen[ing] to what is going on around you and in your own experience. Try to understand what's happening, or if not to understand it, at least to appreciate the reality of it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Reality, Differences

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

• I'm not religious in the sense that I do not subscribe to any particular set of religious dogma. I don't go to church. I don't read the Bible. But I believe that the word "Spirit" with a capital S points to an ultimate reality which I give my heart to.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Believe, Heart

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

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