Astonishment Quote by Michael Mewshaw

“Frederick Buechner wrote, “Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need.”

— Jeff Goins

“You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in…

— Wm. Paul Young

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

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

— Louis Auchincloss

“Words written fifty years ago, a hundred years ago, a thousand years ago, can have as much of this power today as ever they…

— Frederick Buechner

When I forget the power of the word, I read Frederick Buechner. When I forget the deep relief of telling the truth, I read…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“Frederick Buechner said, “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.”

— Shane Claiborne

“I remember, for instance, the first time I went to the great palace of Versailles outside Paris and how, as I wandered around among…

— Frederick Buechner

Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with…

— Samuel Johnson

“Witness each moment in astounded jubilation. Take every holy breath in gratitude. Rejoice in life!”

— Bryant McGill

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

— Timothy Keller

If there be a skeptical star I was born under it. Yet I have lived all my days in complete astonishment.

— William Macneile Dixon