Joan Martin

“Jesus didn't come to merely speak words that were true, He is the Word that makes us true.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom,' the good thief said from his cross. (Luke 23:42). There are perhaps no more human words in all of Scripture, no prayer we can pray so well.”
― Frederick Buechner, Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner – The Acclaimed Novelist-Preacher on Imagination

“The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world's hunger meet. ”
― Frederick Beuchner

“The incarnation is "a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers... Until we too have taken the idea of the God-man seriously enough to be scandalized by it, we have not taken it as seriously as it demands to be taken.”
― Frederick Buechner