Frederick Buechner Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Assurance

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.19, Harper Collins

• Grace is something you can never get but can only be given. There's no way to earn it or deserve it or bring it about anymore than you can deserve the taste of raspberries and cream or earn good looks. A good night's sleep is grace and so are good dreams. Most tears are grace. The smell of rain is grace. Somebody loving you is grace.

  Frederick Buechner

  Good Night, Dream, Rain

• Like Adam, we have all lost Paradise; and yet we carry Paradise around inside of us in the form of a longing for, almost a memory of, a blessedness that is no more, or the dream of a blessedness that may someday be again.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Memories, Paradise

• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Powerful, Book

• In a world where there are no longer books we have almost all of us read, the movies we have almost all of us seen are perhaps the richest cultural bond we have. They go on haunting us for years the way our dreams go on haunting us. In a way they are our dreams. The best of them remind us of human truths that would not seem as true without them. They help to remind us that we are all of us humans together.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Book, Years

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.265, Zondervan

• Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.

  Frederick Buechner

  Meaningful, Dream, Religious

• Maybe at the heart of all our traveling is the dream of someday, somehow, getting Home.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Home, Heart

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.393, Zondervan

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