Frederick Buechner World Quotations

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

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

Beneath the worst the world can do, there is always the glimmer of the best.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

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

Here and there even in our world, and now and then, even in ourselves, we catch glimpeses of a New Creation, which, fleeting as those glipmses are apt to be, give us hope both for this life and for whatever life may await us later on.

The Gospel writers are not really interested primarily in the facts of the birth but in the significance, the meaning for them of that birth just as the people who love us are not really interested primarily in the facts of our births but in what it meant to them when we were born and how for them the world was never the same again, how their whole lives were changed with new significance.

We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are going to have in this puzzling and perilous world, and so they are very precious and what we do with them matters enormously.

Our father. We have killed him, and we will kill him again, and our world will kill him. And yet he is there. It is he who listens at the door. It is he who is coming. It is our father who is about to be born. Through Jesus Christ our Lord.

The world needs people who save lives.

What makes you, in the deepest sense of the word, happy? That's what you should be doing, if the other part is also met - if it is something the world needs.

The kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work (a) that you need most to do and (b) that the world most needs to have done....the place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

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

The original, shimmering self gets buried so deep that most of us end up hardly living out of it at all. Instead we live out all the other selves, which we are constantly putting on and taking off like coats and hats against the world’s weather

Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

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