Ruth Buchanan > Quotes

“Though we often speak of fiction and nonfiction as opposites, they are actually complementary storytelling techniques that make the most sense in relationship to one another.”
― Ruth Buchanan , The Cross in the Culture

“Stop and see as you pass by
As you are now, so once was I.
As I am now, so you will be,
Prepare for death and follow me."
Actual tombstone in Birchardville”
― Ruth Buchanan

“People talk much today of living their truth, and it occurs to me that Jesus is perhaps the only person who's ever fully done that. As the Word made flesh, he embodied truth in a way none of us ever will. He was literal Truth, living breathing, and walking among us . . . We behold His glory.”
― Ruth Buchanan, The Cross in the Culture

“We serve a God who is above and beyond creation--completely outside and "other"--and yet always present and near. As finite humans beings, we are tightly linked to linear chronology. Our God, however, who created time as we know it, though very real and present here, is not bound to our world or our timeline. . . he can access a perspective we lack.”
― Ruth Buchanan

“A commitment to lifelong learning is a commitment to humility and the daily willingness to own areas in which we’ve been wrong or uninformed up to this point.”
― Ruth Buchanan