He will be with you also, all the way, that faithful God. Every morning when you awaken to the old and tolerable pain, at every mile of the hot uphill dusty road of tiring duty, on to the judgment seat, the same Christ there as ever, still loving you, still sufficient for you, even then. And then, on through all eternity.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
–Thomas à Kempis (1380-1471)
There is need of living well, but there is even more need of dying well. A good death is everything, especially today where people think only of things and enjoyment here on earth, rejecting eternity.
–Blessed Louis Guanella (1842-1915)
We are becoming as we go.
–Joan Chittester (1936-
Advent is about learning to wait. It is about not having to know exactly what is coming tomorrow, only that whatever it is, some hard, some uplifting, is sign of the work of God alive in us… We learn in Advent to stay in the present, knowing that only the present well lived can possibly lead us to the fullness of life.
–Joan Chittester (1936-
The function of Advent is to remind us what we’re waiting for as we go through life too busy with things that do not matter to remember the things that do. When year after year we hear the same scriptures and the same hymns of longing for the life to come, of which this one is only its shadow, it becomes impossible to forget the refrains of the soul. Advent relieves us of our commitment to the frenetic in a fast-paced world. It slows us down. It makes us think. It makes us look beyond today to the “great tomorrow” of life.
–Joan Chittester (1936-
