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Go where your best prayers take you.

Go where your best prayers take you.

Frederick Buechner
Prayer, Best Prayer
FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Aug 22, 2013

In honesty you have to admit to a wise man that prayer is not for the wise, not for the prudent, not for the sophisticated. Instead it is for those who recognize that in face of their deepest needs, all their wisdom is quite helpless. It is for those who are willing to persist in doing something that is both childish and crucial.

Frederick Buechner
Wise, Prayer, Honesty

If we are a people who pray, darkness is apt to be a lot of what our prayers are about. If we are people who do not pray, it is apt to be darkness in one form or another that has stopped our mouths.

Frederick Buechner
Prayer, People, Darkness
Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.

Frederick Buechner
Life, Beautiful, Prayer
FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 27, 2013

What's prayer? It's shooting shafts into the dark. What mark they strike, if any, who's to say? It's reaching for a hand you cannot touch. The silence is so fathomless that prayers like plummets vanish into the sea. You beg. You whimper. You load God down with empty praise. You tell him sins that he already knows full well. You seek to change his changeless will. Yet Godric prays the way he breathes, for else his heart would wither in his breast. Prayer is the wind that fills his sail. Else drift with witless tides. And sometimes, by God's grace, a prayer is heard.

Frederick Buechner
Prayer, Heart, Dark
FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Mar 12, 2017

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

Pray anyway. Who knows what God can do through your prayer?

Frederick Buechner
Prayer, Praying, Knows
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Frederick Buechner
Religious, Prayer, Anxious
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

My prayer is spasmodic, occasional, desperate. It has a great deal to do with my children's physical well-being - that when they're traveling in the air the plane not crash, things like that.

Frederick Buechner
Prayer, Children, Air
Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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