In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.
Frederick BuechnerOne of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God
Frederick BuechnerAll other days have either disappeared into darkness and oblivion or not yet emerged from it. Today is the only day there is.
Frederick BuechnerIf preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
Frederick Buechner