Faith Quotes

"Have faith in your dreams and someday your rainbow will come shining through"

- Cinderella

"As a mother, my job is to take care of the possible and trust God with the impossible."

- Ruth Bell Graham

"A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world."

- John 16:21

"I’m not afraid of heaven. I believe in it the way I believe that my mother is with me, hovering over me, even though she’s no longer alive."

- Leonard Cohen

"Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round."

- Jessica Archmint

"From now on all generations will call me blessed."

- Mary's Song

"Because of his boundless love, Jesus became what we are that he might make us to be what he is."

- Irenaeus

"Let us celebrate this day not because of the visible sun, but because of him who made this day."

- Augustine

"Today the darkness begins to grow shorter and the light to lengthen, as the hours of night become fewer.... Realize that the true light is now here and, through the rays of the gospel, is illumining the whole earth."

- Gregory of Nyssa

"God rescued us from the power of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of his beloved Son. Through him we have redemption, the forgiveness of our sins. He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creatures."

- Colossians 1:13-15

"The gifts of God are multiplied, and we in our time experience all that the first believers did. For though the gospel account tells us only of the days when three men, untaught by prophetic preaching or the testimonies of the Law, came from the distant East in order to know God, yet we see the same thing happening now even more clearly and on a far larger scale in the enlightenment of all who are called."

- Leo the Great

"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 be with us, and what we must do. So thank you ... for the waiting time."

- Iona Community

"The thing I love most about Advent is the heartbreak. The utter and complete heartbreak."

- Jerusalem Jackson Greer

"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."

- Karl Rahner

"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

"Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."

- It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

"God grant you the light of Christmas, which is faith; the warmth of Christmas, which is purity; the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice; the belief in Christmas, which is truth; the all of Christmas, which is Christ."

- Wilda English

"Wide, wide in the rose's side Sleeps a child without sin, And any man who loves in this world Stands here on guard over him."

- Kenneth Patchen

"The Word is born this very night: Hail, Mary, full of grace! A hanging lantern sheds its light On Joseph's anxious face. The Word must come in human form, In God's redemptive plan. A Babe takes every heart by storm, But who will heed the Man? The Word is born this very night, And humble is the place; The world is dark, but hope is bright, And sinners look for grace. The Word has come to end the war Which Adam first began. O bless the Babe who sleeps on straw. And listen to the Man!"

- Fred Pratt Green

"Christ is the Morning Star, who, when the night of this world is past, gives to his saints the promise of the light of life, and opens everlasting day."

- Venerable Bede

"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving. If he gives us the gift of Christmas it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it."

- Pope Francis

"We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice."

- Pope Paul VI

"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth."

- John 1:14

"The great challenge left to us is to cut through all the glitz and glam of the season that has grown increasingly secular and commercial, and be reminded of the beauty of the One who is Christmas."

- Bill Crowder

"For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."

- Charles Dickens

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men."

- Luke 2:14

"Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination."

- Max Lucado

"In a dream I heard a voice saying 'fear not, come rejoice. It's the end of the beginning, praise the newborn King.'"

- Robbie Robertson

"To prepare our hearts for Christmas, we must cultivate the spirit of expectancy."

- Handel H. Brown

"The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when He gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son."