21 quotes found
“Paul gives us an astonishing understanding of waiting in the New Testament book of Romans, as rendered by Eugene Peterson, 'Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant...”
“Anticipation lifts the heart. Desire is created to be fulfilled - perhaps not all at once, more likely in slow stages. Isaiah uttered his prophetic words about the renewal of the natural Creation i...”
“The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.”
“For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning - not home but the place through which we must pass if ...”
“In many people Christ lives the life of the Host. Our life is a sacramental life.This Host life is like the Advent life, like the life of the Child in the womb, the Child in the swaddling bands, th...”
“The lack of mystery in our modern life is our downfall and our poverty. A human life is worth as much as the respect it holds for the mystery. We retain the child in us to the extent that we honor ...”
“One of the essential paradoxes of Advent: that while we wait for God, we are with God all along ,that while we need to be reassured of Gods arrival, or the arrival of our homecoming, we are already...”
“Openness to God demands our growing acceptance that we cannot create blueprints for our own lives. Though Gods character is unchanging, the ways of God are unpredictable, and there is a difference ...”
“First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.”
“What does matter is that you understand this one great truth I have learned in my life: having knowledge, even at the expense of leaving the Garden, has been worth it. For it is through this great ...”
“The more deeply one enters into the experience of the sacred the more one is aware of ones own personal evil and the destructive forces in society. The fact that one is alive to what is possible fo...”
“Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other- things that are of no real consequence- the door is shut, and can be opened only from the ...”
“...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we ta...”
“Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes uninvited.”
“Politicians compete for the highest offices. Business tycoons scramble for a bigger and bigger piece of the pie. Armies march and scientists study and philosophers philosophise and preachers preach...”
“God travels wonderful ways with human beings, but he does not comply with the views and opinions of people. God does not go the way that people want to prescribe for him; rather, his way is beyond ...”
“Heres an Advent illustration for kids and those of us who used to be kids and remember what it was like. Suppose you and your mom get separated in the grocery store, and you start to get scared an...”
“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.”
“It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.”
“The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak.”
