It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that, for that beauty east of the sun and west of the moon which is past the reach of all but our most desperate desiring and is finally the beauty of Beauty itself, of Being itself and what lies at the heart of Being.
Frederick BuechnerTag: beauty
Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst.
Frederick BuechnerIf it please you, the lady's name again?" says Reginald. His quill is poised. If God had come to Reginald and not to Moses in the burning bush, he would have asked him how to spell the great I AM so he'd be sure he had it right.
Frederick BuechnerAnd now brothers, I will ask you a terrible question, and God knows I ask it also of myself. Is the truth beyond all truths, beyond the stars, just this: that to live without him is the real death, that to die with him the only life?
Frederick BuechnerTag: religion christmas salvation jesus spirituality cross christ easter devotional
Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Frederick BuechnerTag: christianity religion crucifixion devotional
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last.
Frederick BuechnerTag: christianity christmas jesus advent
If you have never known the power of God's love, then maybe it is because you have never asked to know it - I mean really asked, expecting an answer.
Frederick BuechnerTag: belief christianity god-s-love god-s-presence
It is not objective proof of God's existence that we want but, whether we use religious language for it or not, the experience of God's presence.
Frederick BuechnerTag: god religion spirituality
Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.
Frederick BuechnerTag: belief christianity god religion jesus
And because God's love is uncoercive and treasures our freedom - if above all he wants us to love him, then we must be left free not to love him - we are free to resist it, deny it, crucify it finally, which we do again and again. This is our terrible freedom, which love refuses to overpower so that, in this, the greatest of all powers, God's power, is itself powerless.
Frederick BuechnerTag: free-will god-s-love
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