Janet Devries

“What’s lost is nothing to what’s found, and all the death that ever was, set next to life, would scarcely fill a cup.”
― Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

“The most precious thing I have to tell you about is the sadness. You don’t have to talk about pain, but you have to live out of your pain. Speak out of your depths. Speak out of who you truly are. And when somebody says, “How are you?” don’t say, “I’m fine.” Maybe just say, “Well, I’m not so good. How are you?” Then let the conversation move. Talk not about it, but talk out of it. And, I mean, literally talk in this place.”
― Frederick Buechner, A Crazy, Holy Grace: The Healing Power of Pain and Memory

“We’ve all had saints in our lives, by which I mean not plaster saints, not moral exemplars, not people setting for us a kind of suffocating good example, but I mean saints in the sense of life givers. People through knowing whom we become more alive.”
― Frederick Buechner, The Remarkable Ordinary: How to Stop, Look, and Listen to Life

“Lord, such fire
from a match you never lit.”
― Ilya Kaminsky, Deaf Republic