Frederick Buechner Quotes About Church

• For some people, going to church is going home. In a very profound sense, I would say the same thing. Home is where Christ is.

  Frederick Buechner

  Home, People, Profound

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

• At least to look back over their own lives, as I have looked back over mine, for certain themes and patterns and signals that are so easy to miss when you're caught up in the process of living them. If God speaks to us at all other than through such official channels as the Bible and the church, then I think he speaks to us largely through what happens to us, so listen to what has happened to you-for the sound, above all else, of his voice.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Voice, Missing

• Lo que me hace volver a la iglesia, creo, es pensar que tal vez esta vez la pregunta "¿Es verdad?" será respondida, no sólo en términos de que alguien diga "Sí, es verdad", sino que algo sucederá en un sermón o tal vez al acercarme a la Eucaristía, o en la anciana que está sentada a mi lado con una Biblia - tal vez suceda algo que me demuestre que es verdad. Así que vuelvo pensando que quizá esta vez tenga suerte.

  Frederick Buechner

  Thinking, Church, Saying Yes

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

• I could, of course, have done no more if no less than affiliated myself in one way or another with a particular church, could have simply read books about Christianity, talked to Christian people, set out to discover something about what a Christian life is supposed to involve and then tried as best I could to live one. But, on the one hand, that didn't seem enough to me, and on the other, it seemed to much.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Book, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (1983). “Now and Then”, HarperCollins Publishers

• No soy religioso en el sentido de que no suscribo ningún dogma religioso concreto. No voy a la iglesia. No leo la Biblia. Pero creo que la palabra "Espíritu" con mayúscula apunta a una realidad última a la que entrego mi corazón.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religious, Believe, Heart

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

• I don't go to church all that regularly, and one reason I don't is very often when I go I am bored out of my wits. I find myself being addressed by preachers who, I assume, were led by some initial passion for Christ, for the truth, for God, for "the More." That's what got them there. But that has gotten buried under all the debris of having to run a church, of concerns.

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Passion, Bored

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

• It's all so verbal in the Protestant church. You've heard these words a million times before. Maybe people are leaving the church because they find the church has nothing that they're looking for.

  Frederick Buechner

  People, Leaving, Church

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

• I think most people, if I asked, would say, "Yes, of course I believe." But I think for a great many of them it doesn't really make much difference in terms of either what they do with their lives or with their own inner well-being. They believe because so did grandfather, and that's the same church they've been going to all these years.

  Frederick Buechner

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

• The preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.

  Frederick Buechner

  Church, Tradition, Reason

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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