Frederick Buechner Quote

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.


Now and Then (ed. HarperCollins Publishers, 1983)


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...

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...

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...

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...