Top Advent Quotes

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 mo...

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 gif...

Advent Definition

(n.) The period including the four Sundays before Christmas.

(n.) The first or the expected second coming of Christ.

(n.) Coming; any important arrival; approach.

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 into...

First, I have not minded so much leaving the Garden because God, blessed be his holy name, has never abandoned us.

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 out...

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 an...