“In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.”
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too."
- Frederick Buechner
Compassion
"The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it."
- Frederick Buechner
Transformation
""Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.""
- Frederick Buechner
Courage
"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid."
- Frederick Buechner
Courage
"Go where your best prayers take you"
- Frederick Buechner
Faith
"She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"We should never judge someone based on their appearance."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"Beauty and ugliness are merely subjective labels. What matters is who we are inside."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"When we see beyond appearances, we discover the true essence of a person."
- Beauty and the Beast
Awareness
"Worry is a misuse of imagination."
Awareness