Frederick Buechner is one of my favorite writers. The Eyes of the Heart is beautiful and wise, full of insight, charm, and tenderness.

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.

Dogs are the closest we come to knowing the divine love of God on this side of eternity.

... the reason life works at all is that not everyone in your tribe is nuts on the same day. [pp. 65-66]

Sometimes I think that Jesus watches my neurotic struggles, and shakes his head and grips his forehead and starts tossing back mojitos.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

I thought the secret of life was obvious: be here now, love as if your whole life depended on it, find your life's work, and try to get hold of a giant panda.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword

Nobody is so busy that they can't make time for the people they really care about.

There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.

I have always tried to maintain a sense of humanity in my work, to create something that will take on its own personality but also reflect something about our world.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

The more workers you have in your organization, the better you are implanted in the working class, the more likely you are to come up with the concrete problems of the class.

My job is about playing people. And I think once you lose touch with people, what do you play?

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

If your soul dances, your body follows

I am not reporting things about people. I am reporting things about practices.