Frederick Buechner Joy Quotations

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

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

... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all

We have God's joy in our blood.

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.

Your calling is where your own greatest joy intersects with the needs of the world.

Joy is a mystery because it can happen anywhere, anytime, even under the most unpromising circumstances, even in the midst of suffering, with tears in its eyes....

Your vocation in life is where your greatest joy meets the world's greatest need.