Frederick Buechner Quotes

I used to think God wouldn’t talk to me, but now I know I’m just selective with what I choose to hear.

Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

We can't give the truth to someone as an object, we can only point to it, inviting inspection. It is in that spirit that we can hear or read a teaching and then look at our own lives, at our own experiences to see whether anything might have been revealed about them.

Don't just ask God for what we want. Let him teach us what we should want.

A sense of our own folly is a great step towards being wise, when it leads us to rely on the wisdom of the Lord.

some things you will think of yourself,...some things God will put into your mind

Listen to your life. Listen to what happens to you because it is through what happens to you that God speaks...It's in language that's not always easy to decipher, but it's there powerfully, memorably, unforgettably.

Let God talk to you and minister to you, where you get honest with Him - here's what I do well and don't do well; here are my shortcomings, my strengths, and my gifts.

Ask God to show you any changes you need to make in your relationships. And make sure your closest relationship continues to be with Jesus Himself.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I'm on course, and I'm doing what God wants me to do. I'm real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

I just live my life. I go where I feel God is calling me.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying.

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God's bidding.

We are graced with a greater capacity for direct contact with our own higher power than most of us are in the habit of using.

Once God puts something in your heart - you know, God talks to everyone different.

I feel like God is just telling me what I need to do, and He's showing me the light.

The words given voice inside the mind are not always clear, however; they can be gentle and elliptical, what the prophets call the bat qol, the daughter of the voice of God, she who speaks in whispers and half-seen images.

Soar back through all your own experiences. Think of how the Lord has led you in the wilderness and has fed and clothed you every day. How God has borne with your ill manners, and put up with all your murmurings and all your longings after the 'sensual pleasures of Egypt!' Think of how the Lord's grace has been sufficient for you in all your troubles.

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace.

The dirty wax of egotism accumulated in the heart prevents us from clearly hearing the Lord's voice within. A guru, with the stick of knowledge, cleans our hearts. It's really ugly to see what may come out, but by following patiently, we keep cleaning.