"Your calling is where your own greatest joy……" — Frederick Buechner
"Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world."
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169 Quotes by Frederick Buechner
Frederick Buechner has 169 quotes on this site.
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Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is…
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because…
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It is as impossible for man to demonstrate the existence of God as it would be for even Sherlock Holmes…
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a…
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Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom, the good thief said from his cross (Luke 23:42). There are…
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When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.
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Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the…
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In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
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True faith, a simple life, a helping hand- the three things prized most in Heaven.
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You can't be too careful what you tell a child because you never know what he'll take hold of and…
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We find by losing. We hold fast by letting go. We become something new by ceasing to be something old.…
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I suddenly think the job of acting is a difficult one. It's not as flip, irrelevant and shallow a calling…
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults.…
— Teresa of Avila
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I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
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The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
— James A. Baldwin
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I believe I have a calling. Do you know what that calling is? To stand up in a new and…
— Stephen Baldwin
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Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a…
— Henry Adams
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Everything about my journey to get Spanx off the ground entailed me having to be a salesperson - from going…
— Sara Blakely
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The cooking profession, while it's a noble craft and a noble calling, 'cause you're doing something useful - you're feeding…
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson…
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We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in…
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The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
— Geezer Butler
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