Frederick Buechner Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will proceed until the hour of your death. If you were aware of how precious today is, you could hardly live through it. Unless you are aware of how precious it is, you can hardly be said to be living at all.

  Frederick Buechner

  Yesterday, Today, Another Day

• The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Understanding, Way

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

• The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

  Frederick Buechner

  People, World, Facts

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

• It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, 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.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Children, Men

• He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

  Frederick Buechner

  Men, Years, Grace

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Apr 07, 2015

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