Reviews
"Strikes to the heart… Unpreachy meditations on life and Christianity at its most profound." – People Magazine
"Buechner writes better than almost anyone. This book and its companion, The Sacred Journey, reduce and clarify the who and what and why of his whole life to something not unlike the palm-sized egg of crystal. Deep within it, as we read, the sun shines and the constellations rove." – James Merrill
"The humility of this title--the "now and then" that refers to the occasional glimpse of glory but does not claim any more for itself than that--beautifully reveals something of the tone and attitude of Buechner himself. It also suggests what it is about him that readers hold so dear." - Doug Thorpe
"Buechner is graceful in story and insights." – Los Angeles Times
"Candid…wistful…breathtaking images. – Christian Century
"Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith." – Louis Auchincloss
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"Buechner speaks in a sensitive and quietly humorous voice as he describes crises in his life… Uncommonly rewarding and inspirational." – Publishers Weekly
"Telling Secrets is so riveting and tightly written that it is bound to become a classic." – National Catholic Reporter
"Very gentle, smart, unpreachy…A sensible and heartfelt message of inspiration." – Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A meditation on the connection between knowing and sharing secrets and discovering the reality of a loving and merciful God." – Chicago Tribune
"Buechner’s chronicling once again tells us something about what it means to be human." – Christianity Today
Reviews
"A singularly graceful synthesis of memoir and theological explanation... Entrancing... poetically rich."
Washington Post Book World
"Fascinating... striking... a beautifully successful experiment."
New York Times Book Review
"A candid self-portrait of a devout man."
Philadelphia Inquirer
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"Unlike some Christian writers, Frederick Buechner has never claimed to have a ringside seat to the truth. "I have seen with the eyes of the heart the great hope to which he has called us," he writes, "but out of shyness ... I rarely speak of it, and in my books I have tended to write about it for the most part only obliquely." This very reticence, however, is one of the qualities that most endears this writer to his fans: we trust him all the more because he does not deny his own doubts." - Doug Thorpe
"Old friends and new readers alike will be delighted...In this extraordinarily moving and beautifully written memoir, Buechner reflects on life, faith, friendship, and family." - Bookpage
"An impressive addition to Buechner's oeuvre." - Pam Kingsbury, Library Journal
"With humility, empathy, and honesty, Buechner invites us to see life, and death, with the 20/20 vision offered by the eyes of the heart." – Boston Globe
"Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness." – Anne Lamott
"How beautifully written is this thin volume, above and apart from the current of our times and deeply within the current of the truth. It is the author's remarkable genius for the truth that gives his deceptively simple memoir the heart and soul of a great book." – Mark Helprin
"In this deeply moving memoir, filled with mortality, gratitude, and joy, Buechner invites us to see (as he has seen) with the eyes of the heart." – Marcus J. Borg
"It's a splendid book, a genuinely spiritual memoir which avoids the lugubrious and the sentimental but invites the reader into a level most other memoirs do not. He demonstrates a capacity to cope with tragedy that will be immensely helpful to other people when faced with similar woundings." – Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School
"Profound, beautiful, wrenching at times, and unassumingly wise--The Eyes of the Heart will be one of my book treasures. I will probably read it once a year, and I suspect many other Buechner lovers will do likewise. I recommend it to everyone. It has the feel already of a classic." – Gail Godwin
