Advent Quotes

• At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.

  Mother Teresa

  Heart, Christ, Mark

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• Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.

  Pope Francis

  Doe, Lord, Increase

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• The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Soul, Looks, Imperfect

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• It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Beautiful, Memories, Doors

  Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI (2007). “Seek That Which Is Above: Meditations Through the Year”, p.17, Ignatius Press

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• The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord

  Henri Nouwen

  Eye, Ears, Life Is

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• In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment.

  Frederick Buechner

  Heart, Names, Extraordinary Moments

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• Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.

  Pope Francis

  Journey, Men, Light

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• The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What is possible is to not see it, to miss it, to turn just as it brushes past you. And you begin to grasp what it was you missed, like Moses in the cleft of the rock, watching God’s [back] fade in the distance. So stay. Sit. Linger. Tarry. Ponder. Wait. Behold. Wonder. There will be time enough for running. For rushing. For worrying. For pushing. For now, stay. Wait. Something is on the horizon.

  Jan L. Richardson

  Running, Distance, Mean

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• Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  People, Promise, World

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• God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you.

  Matthew Kelly

  Christmas, Heart, Listening

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• The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

  Louie Giglio

  Mean, Expectations, Can Do

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when
  you're running yourself.

  Bill McKibben

  Running, Advent Christmas, Footsteps

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• Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Powerful, Giving, Silence

  Pope Benedict XVI (2012). “Holy Days: Meditations on the Feasts, Fasts, and Other Solemnities of the Church”, p.6, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Christmas, Education

  A Christmas Carol stave 4 (1843)

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• Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God.

  Louie Giglio

  Waiting, Seasons

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview With Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that
  the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christmas, Cells, Doors

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• Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Spiritual, Excellence, Church

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• Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Stars, Memories, Children

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• By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

  Caryll Houselander

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

  Caryll Houselander, Marie Anne Mayeski (1991). “A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

  Robert Barron

  Thinking, Preparation, Revolution

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• We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

  Max Lucado

  Long, Next, Firsts

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the living and the dead, we must learn to recognize him as present in the events of daily life. Therefore, Advent is, so to speak, an intense training that directs us decisively toward him who already came, who will come, and who comes continuously.

  Pope John Paul II

  Intense Training, Judging, Mind

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• Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so content. She lives in such a garment of silence, and it is as though she were listening to hear the stir of life within her. One always hears that stirring compared to the rustling of a bird in the hand. But the intentness which which one awaits such stirring is like nothing so much as a blanket of silence.

  Dorothy Day

  Hands, Expectations, Silence

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• This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

  Mark Zimmermann

  Christmas, Wise, Jesus

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• I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation.

  Shelley Shepard Gray

  Jesus, Wish, Looks

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