Advent Quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer Download Open image “Advent creates people, new people.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Advent Healing People
Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so happy, so… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
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… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
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.… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“The word “advent” essentially means “arrival” or “coming.” Christians have traditionally observed it during the four weeks leading up to Christmas. It is considered… — Nick Chellsen Copy Share Image
For Christians, Advent reminds us why we need Christmas in the first place. It relies not only the grace of God but also the… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us… — Louie Giglio Copy Share Image
“During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be like, or,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“Because we are invited to be part of God's new creation now, we seek to embody the identity we have been given in Christ.… — Emmanuel Katongole Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Why do Christians sing when they are together? The reason is, quite simply, because in singing together it is possible for them to speak… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
...Gratitude transforms the torment of memory of good things now gone into silent joy. One bears what was lovely in the past not as… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“The church can only defend its own space by fighting, not for space, but for the salvation of the world. Otherwise the church becomes… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
There remains an experience of incomparable value . . . to see the great events of world history from below; from the perspective of… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ. When… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“There is only one church, the church of faith ruled by the word of Jesus Christ alone. This is the true catholic church that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“As Christians, we needn’t be at all ashamed of some impatience, longing, opposition to what is unnatural, and our full share of desire for… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Those who love their dream of a Christian community more than the Christian community itself become destroyers of that Christian community even though their… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“History reveals that times of suffering for the church have also been times of looking upward. Tribulation has always sobered God’s people and encouraged… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life;… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. — Sun Myung Moon Copy Share Image
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. — Kevin Spacey Copy Share Image
“It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.” — Jerusalem Jackson Greer Copy Share Image
“On this eve of Christmas, whether you feel yourself to be surrounded by earthly blessings or whether you feel your blessings to be few,… — Kerry van der Vinne Copy Share Image
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
