Faith Quotes

"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 outside."

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"In our secret yearnings we wait for your coming, and in our grinding despair we doubt that you will. And in this privileged place we are surrounded by witnesses who yearn more than do we and by those who despair more deeply than do we. Look upon your church and its pastors in this season of hope which runs so quickly to fatigue and and in this season of yearning which becomes so easily quarrelsome. Give us the grace and the impatience to wait for your coming to the bottom of our toes, to the edges of our fingertips. We do not want our several worlds to end. Come in your power and come in your weakness in any case and make all things new. Amen."

- Walter Brueggemann

"Our God is the God of the unexpected. A few things could be more unexpected than the King of heaven being born in a stable."

- Bill Crowder

"If He gives us the gift of Christmas it is because we all have the ability to understand and receive it."

- Pope Francis

"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. Every year we roll up all our needs and yearnings and faithful expectation into one word: “Come!” And yet, what a strange prayer this is! After all, you have already come and pitched your tent among us. You have already shared our life with its little joys, its long days of tedious routine, its bitter end. Could we invite you to anything more than this with our “Come”? Could you approach any nearer to us than you did when you became the “Son of Man”? In spite of all this we still pray: “Come.”"

- Karl Rahner

"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 ever we are to reach home at last."

- Frederick Buechner

"Jesus Christ became Incarnate for one purpose, to make a way back to God that man might stand before Him as He was created to do, the friend and lover of God Himself."

- Oswald Chambers

"Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: A cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love."

- Lucinda Franks

"Matthew loved the magi. He gave their story more square inches of text than he gave the narrative of the birth of Jesus. He never mentions the shepherds or the manger, but he didn’t want us to miss the star and the seekers. It’s easy to see why. Their story is our story."

- Max Lucado

"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 and labourers sweat. But in that silent baby, lying in that humble manger, there pulses more potential power and wisdom and grace and aliveness than all the rest of us can imagine."

- Brian D. McLaren

"Into this world, this demented inn in which there is absolutely no room for Him at all, Christ comes uninvited."

- Thomas Merton

"The Almighty appeared on earth as a helpless human baby, needing to be fed and changed and taught to talk like any other child. The more you think about it, the more staggering it gets. Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the Incarnation."

- J.I. Packer

"The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable."

- Ralph W. Sockman

"It is impossible to conceive how different things would have turned out if that birth had not happened whenever, wherever, however it did….for millions of people who have lived since, the birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it. It is a truth that, for twenty centuries, there have been untold numbers of men and women who, in untold numbers of ways, have been so grasped by the child who was born, so caught up in the message He taught and the life He lived, that they have found themselves profoundly changed by their relationship with Him."

- Frederick Buechner

"Jesus is the best gift of all! Have a blessed Christmas, little one."

"May your heart be filled with the love of Jesus this Christmas."

"Jesus loves you so much! Wishing you a Christmas filled with His joy."

"God sent His Son to show us His love. Merry Christmas!"

"Remember, Jesus was born to bring joy to the world! Have a blessed Christmas."

"The best gift this Christmas is God’s love. Wishing you lots of joy and blessings."

"May the blessings of the Holy Family be with you this Christmas and always."

"Wishing you a Christmas filled with the grace of the Holy Spirit and the love of Christ."

"As we honor the birth of Jesus, may your heart be filled with peace and joy."

"Blessed Christmas! May the Virgin Mary’s love and Christ’s light guide you throughout the season."

"May the joy of Christmas Mass fill your heart with God’s blessings and peace."

"In the spirit of Christmas, may the love of Christ and the grace of the Lord be with you and your family."

"Rejoice in the miracle of Christ’s birth and the love of our Blessed Mother."

"May God bless you with a joyful Christmas and a peaceful New Year."

"Let us honor the birth of our Lord with love, hope, and faith. Merry Christmas!"

"May the peace of Christ fill your heart as we celebrate His birth this holy season."