“The birth of Jesus made possible not just a new way of understanding life but a new way of living it.”
"In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be only the sound of the silence itself. You hold your breath to listen. You are aware of the beating of your heart. The extraordinary thing that is about to happen is matched only by the extraordinary moment just before it happens. Advent is the name of that moment."
- Frederick Buechner
Awareness
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peached and joy finally for you too."
- Frederick Buechner
Compassion
""Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.""
- Frederick Buechner
Courage
"Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid."
- Frederick Buechner
Courage
"Go where your best prayers take you"
- Frederick Buechner
Faith
"Love has the power to transform even the most hideous of creatures."
- Beauty and the Beast
Transformation
"Old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new."
Transformation
"Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time."
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transformation
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change."
- Queen Elizabeth II
Transformation
"Today is not just Tuesday, it is Transformation Tuesday. That means that success does not just come to you, you have to go out and get it. So what are you waiting for?"
Transformation