Frederick Buechner - Place Quotes

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The past is the place we view the present from as much as the other way around.

Frederick Buechner
Your calling is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner
Think of these pages as graffiti maybe, and where I have scratched up in a public place my longings and loves, my grievances and indecencies, be reminded in private of your own. In that way, at least, we can hold a kind of converse.

Frederick Buechner
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet.

Frederick Buechner
We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

Frederick Buechner
When a man leaves home, he leaves behind some scrap of his heart.... It's the same with a place a man is going to. Only then he sends a scrap of his heart ahead.

Frederick Buechner
The place where God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger coincide.

Frederick Buechner
Whatever you do with your life-whatever you end up achieving or not achieving-the great gift you have in you to give to the world is the gift of who you alone are; your way of seeing things, and saying things, and feeling about things, that is like nobody else's. If so much as a single one of you were missing, there would be an empty place at the great feast of life that nobody else in all creation could fill.

Frederick Buechner