... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
Frederick BuechnerThe preaching is part of the reason I don't go to church. Plus, I don't know, it was never part of my tradition.
Frederick BuechnerLaugh till you weep. Weep till there's nothing left but to laugh at your weeping. In the end it's all one.
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