Frederick Buechner Quotes about Joy

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

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

Frederick Buechner

Joy, Needs, World

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.

Frederick Buechner

Healing, Eye, Joy

Frederick Buechner (1981). “The hungering dark”

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

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 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