Ruth Buchanan > Quotes

“Friends know the patterns of our souls.”
― Ruth Buchanan, The Proper Care and Feeding of Singles: How Pastors, Marrieds, and Church Leaders Effectively Support Solo Members

“In this sense, Rachel envied fictional characters. For them, everything would eventually make sense. If she were fictional, all the random, ridiculous events of her life would mold into a recognizable shape, building toward something. She would recognize signs, portents, and foreshadowing. In real life, however, no such clues were forthcoming.”
― Ruth Buchanan, Flexible: A Novel of Mystery, Drama, Rehabilitation, Spiders, and the Occasional Head Wound

“Christ nailed all my guilt to the cross. Sometimes, though, I needed a reminder that the nails held.”
― Ruth Buchanan, Murder on Birchardville Hill

“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”
― Ruth Buchanan, The Cross in the Culture: Connecting Our Stories to the Greatest Story Ever Told