Frederick Buechner Quotes

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.

For even these are no less bestowed on him of pure grace, than are righteousness and salvation themselves.

Grace is the good pleasure of God that inclines him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.

The difference between mercy and grace? Mercy gave the prodigal son a second chance. Grace gave him a feast.

May the peace of God be with you," she says, her voice low, "even in the midst of trouble." "Why would it?" I say softly, so no one else can hear. "After all I've done..." "It isn't about you," she says. "It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

I'm happy to be reminded that an ordinary day full of nothing but nothingness can make you feel like you've won the lottery.

Today, I am blessed to be living a dream. And yet, if it all went away tomorrow, I know I would still have peace.

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Grace is a much more accurate word to use when dealing with the state of human existence. God gives us unmerited favor through Jesus Christ, and since Adam and Eve, our lives have depended on it.

The apostle Paul never seemed to exhaust the topic of grace - what makes us think we can? He just kept coming at it and coming at it from another angle. That's the thing about grace. It's like springtime. You can't put it in a single sentence definition, and you can't exhaust it.

For me, every hour is grace.

God's grace is definitely abundant.

The grace that saves them is the free undeserved goodness and favor of God.

It is a gift. You cannot earn it, or it ceases to be a gift.

The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

Maybe life doesn't get any better than this, or any worse, and what we get is just what we're willing to find: small wonders, where they grow.

Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world.

The rains of Life's Blessings cannot gather on mountaintops of pride, but flow easily into valleys of humbleness.

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself.

My deepest awareness of myself is that I am deeply loved by Jesus Christ and I have done nothing to earn it or deserve it.

Grace is gratuitous; it is a gift.

Of all the things you must earn in life, God's unending affection is not one of them. You have it.

There's a feeling that feels like what I've been told is love. It has to do with what Louis Schwartzberg said today about beauty, love, whether it's squirrels outside my door, the rabbits, or the birds. They're not trying to impress me or anything, and me watching them isn't getting me or advancing me in anything. It's just beautiful. When I think of the relationship I'm in, there's a feeling that comes over me sometimes.