Quotes 265: Frederick Buechner

"God calls you to the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet." 

–– Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), American author and Presbyterian minister 

via Sketchbook 4, 2007, p. 34 

Quotes 119: Frederick Buechner

"Memory is more than a looking back at a time that is no longer; it is a looking out into another kind of time altogether where everything that ever was continues not just to be, but to grow and change with the life that is in it still." 

–– Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), American writer and Presbyterian minister

Source: Frederick Buechner. The Sacred Journey. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1982; p. 21.

via Book of Commonplace 2005-2006, p.111

Quotes 31: Frederick Buechner

"You enter the extraordinary by way of the ordinary." 

–– Frederick Buechner (b. 1926), American author and Presbyterian minister 

Source: Free Will Astrology, December 6, 2018

via: Book of Commonplace 2017-2020, p.66.