“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.” MeanEnoughRunningPastTurnsWaitingWonderWorryRocksMissingSeasonsDistanceLikesPushingHorizonFadesBrushesMosesPonderingRushingAdvent Author:Jan L. Richardson
“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.” LooksHeartSpiritListeningSeasonsChristmasAwakeYearningOpen HeartAdvent Author:Matthew Kelly
“Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God.” WaitingSeasonsAdvent Author:Louie Giglio
“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.” YearsBeautifulSongWaitingPrayerPrayingHolyPromiseSeasonsLongingLovelyChristmasCelebrateCelebrationAdventMerry ChristmasChristmas WishesMerry Christmas WishesChristmas Greetings Author:Karl Rahner
“Eid is a time of joy, after a season of fasting and prayer and reflection. Each year, the end of Ramadan means celebration and thanksgiving for millions of Americans. And your joy during this season enriches the life of our great country. This year, Eid is celebrated at the same time as Hanukkah and Advent. So it's a good time for people of these great faiths, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, to remember how much we have in common: devotion to family, a commitment to care for those in need, a belief in God and His justice, and the hope for peace on earth.” PeopleNeedsYearsMeanEndsCountryInspirationCareEarthRememberJoyBeliefJusticePrayerCommonChristianityMillionsReflectionCommitmentSeasonsIslamDevotionGood TimesCelebrationJudaismPeace On EarthFastingBelief In GodAdventGreat CountryGreat FaithThose In NeedRamadanHanukkahIslam Is Peace Author:George W. Bush
“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.” WorldWholeSpiritualChurchSeasonsExcellenceCatholicismAdvent Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“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.” WorldHeartInspirationFaithSpeakChristSleepEatingBeatsSeasonsBreathsCatholicChristian InspirationalBreathingDependentWakingMaryHelplessAdventHeart Beat Book:A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader Source: A Rocking-Horse Catholic: A Caryll Houselander Reader
“With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes.” FieldsSpringSeasonsCreatorAspirationAbundanceHarvestPeasantsAdvent Author:Islom Karimov
“Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silence…For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life.” BodyMotherGrowthChristSecretSilenceGrowingDivineGrewMonthsSeasonsSimplicityNineDaily LifeDivine LoveAdventNine Months Author:Caryll Houselander
“The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.” LooksMightJoyMemoriesHappenedTasteSeasonsChristmasBitterOur MemoriesMuteAdvent Author:R. C. Sproul