Frederick Buechner Quotes About Jesus

• Jesús suele venir en medio de la vida, en los momentos más reales e ineludibles. No en un resplandor de luz sobrenatural, no en medio de un sermón, no en medio de una especie de ensoñación religiosa, sino... a la hora de la cena, o caminando por la calle... Nunca se acercó desde lo alto, sino siempre en medio, en medio de la gente, en medio de la vida real y de las preguntas que la vida real plantea.

  Frederick Buechner

  Religioso, Jesús, Real

  Publicación en FaceBook deFrederick Buechner del 29 de Mar de 2016

• Lord, I believe; help my unbelief' is the best any of us can do really, but thank God it is enough.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dios, Fe, Religión

• El nacimiento de Jesús hizo posible no sólo una nueva forma de entender la vida, sino una nueva forma de vivirla.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Understanding, Way

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

• Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all. Amen, and come Lord Jesus.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Believe, News

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Apr 17, 2015

• Jesús no vino simplemente a decir palabras que fueran verdad, Él es la Palabra que nos hace verdaderos.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesús, Habla

  Publicación en FaceBook deFrederick Buechner del 26 de mayo de 2016

• We are children, perhaps, at the very moment when we know that it is as children that God loves us - not because we have deserved his love and not in spite of our undeserving; not because we try and not because we recognize the futility of our trying; but simply because he has chosen to love us. We are children because he is our father; and all of our efforts, fruitful and fruitless, to do good, to speak truth, to understand, are the efforts of children who, for all their precocity, are children still in that before we loved him, he loved us, as children, through Jesus Christ our lord.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesús, Niños, Padre

• To believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesús, Creer, Corazón

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

• Remember Jesus of Nazareth, staggering on broken feet out of the tomb toward the Resurrection, bearing on his body the proud insignia of the defeat which is victory, the magnificent defeat of the human soul at the hands of God.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Easter, Hands

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.8, Harper Collins

• It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message he taught and the life he lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesús, Niños, Hombres

• Jesus doesn't say, "The religion founded in my name is the way, the truth, and the life, [and] what people say about me is the way." "Our way of worship, the Christian structure, is not the way," [he would say,] "I am. I am. If you want to know what life is all about, what it's supposed to be, where it's supposed to go, where it's supposed to derive its strength from, don't look at anything people say about me. Don't look at the faith that's been created. Look at my life, which is a life ultimately of sacrificial love."

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Jesus, Names

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

• And 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 Buechner

  Christmas, Jesus, Easter

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Secrets in the Dark: A Life in Sermons”, p.13, Harper Collins

• 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 Buechner

  Jesus, Father, Our World

• In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

  Frederick Buechner

  Cristiano, Jesús, Medio

  Frederick Buechner (1973). "Wishful thinking: a theological ABC", Harper San Francisco

• The Jesus I follow is the peacemaker, is one who says forgive your enemies, who worries about the poor, who worries about the poorest of the poor instead of the richest of the rich.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Worry, Enemy

  "Frederick Buechner Extended Interview". Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. May 5, 2006.

• Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Prayer, Thieves

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.23, Harper Collins

• Principles are what people have instead of God. To be a Christian means among other things to be willing if necessary to sacrifice even your highest principles for God's or your neighbour's sake the way a Christian pacifist must be willing to pick up a baseball bat if there's no other way to stop a man from savagely beating a child. Jesus didn't forgive his executioners on principle but because in some unimaginable way he was able to love them. 'Principle' is an even duller word than 'Religion'.

  Frederick Buechner

  Christian, Baseball, Jesus

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 02, 2015

• Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Pain, Sadness

  Frederick Buechner, Lee Boltin (1974). “The life of Jesus”, Gramercy

• He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Years, Littles

  "Drama Team Handbook". Book by Alison Siewert, 2003.

• The first ministers were the twelve disciples. There is no evidence that Jesus chose them because they are brighter or nicer than other people. Their sole qualification seems to have been their initial willingness to rise to their feet when Jesus said, "Follow me."

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Feet, People

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Beyond Words: Daily Readings in the ABC's of Faith”, p.259, Zondervan

• The Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, Hiding, Knows

• I suspect that Jesus spoke many of his parables as a kind of sad and holy joke and that that may be part of why he seemed reluctant to explain them because if you have to explain a joke, you might as well save your breath.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesus, May, Might

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 29, 2017

• Dios sabe que tenemos nuestros propios demonios que expulsar, nuestra propia suciedad que limpiar. La ansiedad neurótica es mi demonio particular, una sensación flotante de fatalidad que ha arruinado muchos de los que podrían haber sido, deberían haber sido, los días más felices de mi vida, y más de un par de veces en mi vida he resucitado de tales ruinas, que es otra forma de decir que más de un par de veces en mi vida he resucitado de la muerte -la muerte del espíritu, la muerte del corazón- por el poder sanador con el que Jesús nos llama a sanar y a ser sanados.

  Frederick Buechner

  Jesús, Curación, Corazón

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 02, 2013

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