Waiting on the Word Quotes

“Advent falls in winter, at the end of the year, in the dark and cold, but its focus is on the coming of light and life, when the Ancient of Days becomes a young child and says, ‘Behold, I make all things new.’ Perhaps only poetry can help us fathom the depths and inhabit the tensions of these paradoxes.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“One virtue of keeping the seasons of the sacral year is that they can help us to redress an imbalance, either in our own spiritual life or in the culture of our church or denomination.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right,  Ring in the common love of good.  Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old,  Ring in the thousand years of peace.  Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land,  Ring in the Christ that is to be. The”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Refugee Malcolm Guite  We think of him as safe beneath the steeple,  Or cosy in a crib beside the font,  But he is with a million displaced people  On the long road of weariness and want.  For even as we sing our final carol  His family is up and on that road,  Fleeing the wrath of someone else’s quarrel,  Glancing behind and shouldering their load.  Whilst”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“But the Advent hope – indeed, the Advent miracle – was that this unknowable, un-namable, utterly holy Lord chose out of his own free will and out of love for us to become known: to bear a name and meet us where we are.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Christmas hath darkness Brighter than the blazing noon”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“O Emmanuel O Emmanuel”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“O Rex Gentium O Rex Gentium”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“O Oriens O Oriens”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“O Clavis O Clavis David”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“O Sapientia
I cannot think unless I have been thought,
Nor can I speak unless I have been spoken.
I cannot teach except as I am taught,
Or break the bread except as I am broken.
O Mind behind the mind through which I seek,
O Light within the light by which I see,
O Word beneath the words with which I speak,
O founding, unfound Wisdom, finding me,
O sounding Song whose depth is sounding me,
O Memory of time, reminding me,
My Ground of Being, always grounding me,
My Maker's Bounding Line, defining me,
Come, hidden Wisdom, come with all you bring, Come to me now, disguised as everything.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“the core of the Christian faith”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“I cannot think unless I have been thought”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“It is good that Christmas comes at the dark dream of the year That might wish to sleep ever. For birth is awaking”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Christmas declares the glory of the flesh: And therefore a European might wish To celebrate it not at midwinter but in spring”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Though winter night will soon surround us here”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“The time draws near the birth of Christ: The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“In sleep his infant mouth works in and out. He is so new”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“O huge and most unspeakeable impression Of Love’s deep wound”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“So”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“And well may God with the serving-folk Cast in His dreadful lot; Is not He too a servant”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Speaking indifferently to him”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Deep within the clay”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“We are all in some way called to respond to God’s promise”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Salvation to all that will is nigh; That All”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Advent is the time when we move from glimpses of that giver from afar”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“It may be a friend or a lover who encourages us to leave our desk or house to glimpse the moon”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Advent is the time when we look forward to the day when we shall see Christ’s ‘full-ey’d love’.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“To know that someone looks on us and sees good where perhaps we have seen only ‘night’ and ‘weltring sinne’ is in itself transformative.”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany

“Tradition is the nurturing ground and overarching frame that makes certain experiences possible and allows us to interpret them”
― Malcolm Guite, Waiting on the Word: A Poem a Day for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany