“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
"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."
- Frederick Buechner
Awareness
"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
"Go where your best prayers take you"
- Frederick Buechner
Faith
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage