Each year, Christians around the world celebrate the Advent season leading up to Christmas Day. It’s a time for slowing down and preparing our hearts and minds for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, both his earthly incarnation and his second coming in glory. 

A wonderful way to deepen your appreciation for and understanding of this season is to reflect on quotes and Bible verses about Advent. These quotes can be used as daily devotional readings for you and your family, filling you with hope, joy, peace, faith, and light as you wait for the arrival of our Savior.

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Modern-day Advent candle colors usually include three purple candles symbolizing hope, faith, and peace, one pink candle for joy, and a central white candle, known as the Christ candle.

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“As a man thinketh so is he” may sound like positive thinking jargon, but it has something wiser and more profound than we may realize hiding inside it. So what can this famous Bible verse teach us?

Does the Bible say anything about spanking or are we asking the wrong question?

What can we learn from God saying, "as a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you" in the Bible?

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