Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

You can sincerely believe there is no God and live as though there is. " The Magnificent Defeat
"It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes to demonstrate the existence of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Born July 11 1926 in New York City he is an ordained Presbyterian minister and the author of more than thirty publiFrederick Buechnerd books thus far. " He has been a finalist for the National Book Award Presented by the National Book Foundation and the Pulitzer Prize and has been awarded eight honorary degrees from such institutions as Yale University and the Virginia Theological Seminary. He has been called "Major talent" and "…a very good writer indeed" by the New York Times and "one of our most original storytellers" by USA Today.