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 (1992). The Clown in the Belfry: Writings on Faith and Fiction, Harpercollins
More Author Quotes
- When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes w … ▶
- 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. To see reality-not as w … ▶
- Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.
- When someone we love suffers, we suffer with that person, and we would not have it otherwise, because the suffering and the love are one, just as it is with God's love for us. ✨ Frederick Buechner (2 … ▶
- He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect th … ▶
Most Cited Authors
William Shakespeare2362
Cassandra Clare2086
Ralph Waldo Emerson2017
Paulo Coelho1839
Rajneesh1644
Sherrilyn Kenyon1633
Mark Twain1626
C. S. Lewis1624
Rick Riordan1549
Oscar Wilde1401
Albert Einstein1372
J. K. Rowling1274
Rumi1268
Friedrich Nietzsche1258
John Green1254
Swami Vivekananda1206
Thomas Jefferson1179
Richelle Mead1130
Barack Obama1115
Henry David Thoreau1086
Terry Pratchett1070
Stephen King1024
Mahatma Gandhi1019
Jodi Picoult1016
Neil Gaiman977
Haruki Murakami976
Laozi972
27
The Best Quotes
Charles Clarke 
Francesca Lia Block 
Masi Oka 
Karl Kraus 
Richard G. Scott 
Marc Maron 
Charles Caleb Colton 
Chris Rock 
Mindy Kaling 
Al Gore Most Liked Authors
- William Shakespeare46.4k
- Cassandra Clare40.9k
- Ralph Waldo Emerson38.9k
- Paulo Coelho35.9k
- Rajneesh32k
- Sherrilyn Kenyon31.8k
- Mark Twain31.7k
- C. S. Lewis31k
- Rick Riordan30.4k
- Oscar Wilde26.9k
- Albert Einstein26.8k
- J. K. Rowling24.6k
- John Green24.5k
- Friedrich Nietzsche24.4k
- Rumi24.3k
- Swami Vivekananda23.3k
- Thomas Jefferson22.7k
- Richelle Mead22.2k
- Barack Obama21.6k
- Terry Pratchett21k
- Henry David Thoreau20.6k
- Stephen King19.8k
- Jodi Picoult19.8k
- Mahatma Gandhi19.7k
- Neil Gaiman19.2k
- Laozi19.1k
- Haruki Murakami19k
27