"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...!!!"
Poet: Karl Rahner...!!!
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"The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart...!!!"
Poet: Helen Keller...!!!
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"Advent, like its cousin Lent, is a season for prayer and reformation of our hearts. Since it comes at winter time, fire is a fitting sign to help us celebrate Advent... If Christ is to come more fully into our lives this Christmas, if GOD is to become really incarnate for us, then fire will have to be present in our prayer. Our worship and devotion will have to stoke the kind of fire in our souls that can truly change our hearts. Ours is a great responsibility not to waste this Advent time...!!!"
Poet: Edward Hays...!!!
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"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up...!!!"
Poet: Anne Lamott...!!!
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"No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely...!!!"
Poet: Sun Myung Moon...!!!
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"What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace...!!!"
Poet: Agnes M-Pharo...!!!
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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. & 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...!!!"
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"For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, & courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our journey but only the beginning, not home but the place through which we must pass if ever we are to reach home at last...!!!"
Poet: Frederick Buechner...!!!
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"The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent...!!!"
Poet: Sun Myung Moon...!!!
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"There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, & that is, keeping Christmas...!!!"
Poet: Henry Van Dyke...!!!
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"You keep us waiting. You, the GOD of all time, Want us to wait. For the right time in which to discover Who we are, where we are to go, Who will be with us, & what we must do. So thank you... for the waiting time...!!!"
Poet: John Bell...!!!
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"GOD's movement is often abrupt & unsettling rather than predictable & settling...!!!"
Poet: Michael Joseph Brown...!!!
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"Certainly the Advent of technology & electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry...!!!"
Poet: Michael Oxley...!!!
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"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air...!!!"
Poet: W.T-Ellis...!!!
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"Do give books, religious or otherwise, for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, & permanently personal...!!!"
Poet: Lenore Hershey...!!!
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"Christmas is fast approaching. & now that Christ has aroused our seasonal expectations, he'll soon fulfill them all...!!!"
Poet: St-Augustine...!!!
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"The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are... people who acknowledge their lowly estate & are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent GOD...!!!"
Poet: John Piper...!!!
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"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not, or were not permitted to, read, were given sermons by the few who could...!!!"
Poet: Theodore Bikel...!!!
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