Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.
Frederick BuechnerAll 'isms' run out in the end, and good riddance to most of them. Patriotism for example. [...] If in the interest of making sure we don't blow ourselves off the map once and for all, we end up relinquishing a measure of national sovereignty to some international body, so much the worse for national sovereignty. There is only one Sovereignty that matters ultimately, and it is of another sort altogether.
Frederick BuechnerPeople will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.
Frederick BuechnerPreaching and writing - it's the same. Whether I'm writing to speak or writing to be read in a book, it's the same thing.
Frederick Buechner