Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Wishful Thinking, p. 95
Variant: Vocation is the place where our deep gladness meets the world's deep need.
Source: Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973)
“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.”
Last letter to George Burns, as quoted in Two Minutes for God : Quick Fixes for the Spirit (2007) by Peter B. Panagore, p. 73; this was later used in a slogan for the United Church of Christ: "Never place a period where God has placed a comma. God Is Still Speaking."
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Rick Warren (1954) Christian religious leader
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer
As quoted in For Lovers of God Everywhere: Poems of the Christian Mystics (2009) by Roger Housden, p. 78
“There's not a place where we can flee,
But God is present there.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 2: "Praise for Creation and Providence".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”
Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian
Bu Ali Shah Qalandar (1209–1324) Indian Sufi saint
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 270
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 19
“The longing that God has placed in our hearts is for heaven, a better place, a better country.”
Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 31
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 127
