Buechner Vocation Quotes & Sayings

There's nothing worse in the world than a poetry recital. — Charles Bukowski

You get one life and it rolls out like a long hallway carpet. It begins on the day you are born and keeps on rolling until you drop. There's no refresh button, no start-over option. — James Preller

Science demands objective factual evidence - proof; spiritual experience is subjective and leads to faith. — Jane Goodall

Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy. — Barack Obama

I don't think people would climb mountains or jump off bridges with parachutes or kayak Class V rapids if those things didn't offer the brief and horrible illusion of imminent death. They would just be complicated, time-consuming endeavors that we'd steer well clear of because they got in the way of real life. — Sebastian Junger

Trust me, there are as many ways of living as there are men, and one is no more fit to lead another, than a bird to lead a fish, or a fish a quadruped. — Frances Wright

For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

Any profession you engage in, no matter how profitable, unless it is truly helpful and good for others, is a crime against your soul, and the world. — Bryant McGill

I can conduct better than I count. — Eugene Ormandy

I hate negativity. I hate people who say the phrase 'I hate'. I really don't like the word 'hate.' Dislike, frightened of, terrified of, or yukky - but not 'hate.' — Kevin McCloud

Pull a thread here and you'll find it's attached to the rest of the world. — Nadeem Aslam

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning. — Barbara De Angelis

I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs. — John Major

As Frederick Buechner wrote, Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need. — Jeff Goins

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