Frederick Buechner Quotes About Joy

Quotes about: Joy

• Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.

  Frederick Buechner

  Forgiveness, Peace, Ignorance

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Nov 15, 2016

• Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, World

• To be commanded to love God at all, let alone in the wilderness, is like being commanded to be well when we are sick, to sing for joy when we are dying of thirst, to run when our legs are broken. But this is the first and great commandment nonetheless. Even in the wilderness - especially in the wilderness - you shall love him.

  Frederick Buechner

  Faith, Running, Sick

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 30, 2015

• Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes.

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  Healing, Eye, Joy

  Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

• Everybody prays whether [you think] of it as praying or not. The odd silence you fall into when something very beautiful is happening or something very good or very bad. The ah-h-h-h! that sometimes floats up out of you as out of a Fourth of July crowd when the sky-rocket bursts over the water. The stammer of pain at somebody else s pain. The stammer of joy at somebody else's joy. Whatever words or sounds you use for sighing with over your own life. These are all prayers in their way.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Beautiful, Prayer

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Sep 27, 2013

• Being a good steward of your pain. . . . It involves being alive to your life. It involves taking the risk of being open, of reaching out, of keeping in touch with the pain as well as the joy of what happens because at no time more than at a painful time do we live out of the depths of who we are instead of out of the shallows.

  Frederick Buechner

  Pain, Joy, Risk

  Frederick Buechner (1992). “The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction”, Harpercollins

• Vocation is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, World

• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Life, Romantic

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Oct 02, 2015

• ... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

  Frederick Buechner

  Running, Long, Joy

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jul 28, 2016

• God 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

  Running, Believe, Mean

• Romantic love is blind to everything except what is lovable and lovely, but Christ's love sees us with terrible clarity and sees us whole. Christ's love so wishes our joy that it is ruthless against everything in us that diminishes our joy. The worst sentence Love can pass is that we behold the suffering which Love has endured for our sake, and that is also our acquittal. The justice and mercy of the judge are ultimately one.

  Frederick Buechner

  Love, Justice, Judging

  Frederick Buechner (1973). “Wishful thinking: a theological ABC.”, Harper San Francisco

• Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me.

  Frederick Buechner

  Real, Joy, Wedding Toast

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Dec 27, 2016

• Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

  Frederick Buechner

  Joy, Needs, Calling

• We have God's joy in our blood.

  Frederick Buechner

  Blood, Joy

• Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

  Frederick Buechner

  Lying, Joy, Needs

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