World Quotes by Frederick Buechner

The world needs people who save lives.

— Frederick Buechner

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

— Frederick Buechner

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the…

— Frederick Buechner

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

— Frederick Buechner

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

— Frederick Buechner

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

— Frederick Buechner

Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

— Frederick Buechner

Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

— Frederick Buechner

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

— Frederick Buechner

Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and…

— Frederick Buechner

Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which,…

— Frederick Buechner

I'm trying to listen to my past, listen to what's most deeply going on inside myself, my creative set of fictional characters,…

— Frederick Buechner

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is better than we ever dared hope, and that to…

— Frederick Buechner

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and…

— Frederick Buechner

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead…

— Frederick Buechner

We are in constant danger of being not actors in the drama of our lives but reactors, to go where the world…

— Frederick Buechner

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are…

— Frederick Buechner

Part of the inner world of everyone is this sense of emptiness, unease, incompleteness, and I believe that this in itself is…

— Frederick Buechner

Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to…

— Frederick Buechner

To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that…

— Frederick Buechner

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them…

— Frederick Buechner

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means…

— Frederick Buechner

The Shield was another of the Fear's names. According to Laughter, it means he shields the seed of Abraham the way a…

— Frederick Buechner

It was the upward-reaching and fathomlessly hungering, heart-breaking love for the beauty of the world at its most beautiful, and, beyond that,…

— Frederick Buechner

From the simplest lyric to the most complex novel and densest drama, literature is asking us to pay attention. Pay attention to…

— Frederick Buechner

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.

— Frederick Buechner

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

— Frederick Buechner

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

— Frederick Buechner

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

— Frederick Buechner

... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on…

— Frederick Buechner

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is…

— Frederick Buechner

What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is…

— Frederick Buechner

God created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in…

— Frederick Buechner

If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song,…

— Frederick Buechner

Our stories are all stories of searching. We search for a good self to be and for good work to do. We…

— Frederick Buechner

The worst isn't the last thing about the world. It's the next to the last thing. The last thing is the best.…

— Frederick Buechner

By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the…

— Frederick Buechner

I loved rain for making home seem home more deeply, and I suspect that is why, from as far back as I…

— Frederick Buechner

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party…

— Frederick Buechner

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived…

— Frederick Buechner