You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you. - Frederick Buechner
Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It's 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
I find I need to put things into words before I can believe that they are entirely real. - Frederick Buechner
Go where your best prayers take you. - Frederick Buechner
Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. - Frederick Buechner
Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. - Frederick Buechner
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you. - Frederick Buechner