Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.
Frederick BuechnerThe Jesus who is the one whom we search for even when we do not know that we are searching and hide from even when we do not know that we are hiding.
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 BuechnerTo believe is not intellectual assent: "Yes, I believe in Jesus. I will sign my name to the Nicene Creed. I believe it all" - which you could do, [but] it would have no effect on who you were or what you did. It is, rather, to give your heart.
Frederick BuechnerGod created us in joy and created us for joy, and in the long run not all the darkness there is in the world and in ourselves can separate us finally from that joy, because whatever else it means to say that God created us in His image, I think it means that even when we cannot believe in Him, even when we feel most spiritually bankrupt and deserted by Him, His mark is deep within us. We have God's joy in our blood.
Frederick Buechner