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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. -- Karl Rahner
I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution. -- Robert Barron
The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent. -- Sun Myung Moon
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely. -- Sun Myung Moon
It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope. -- Pope Benedict XVI
At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern. -- Mother Teresa
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience. -- Stanley Hauerwas
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. -- Dee Hock
Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry. -- Michael Oxley
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. -- Marilyn Manson
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general. -- George Crumb
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could. -- Theodore Bikel
I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books. -- Kevin Smith
Advent creates people, new people. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus, -- Richard Rohr
The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history. -- Todd Akin
Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down. -- Pope Francis
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself. -- Bill McKibben
The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom. -- Elias Lyman Magoon
We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming. -- Max Lucado
Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man. -- Pope Francis
Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God. -- Louie Giglio
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation. -- Alex Campbell
Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world. -- Pope Benedict XVI
With the advent of spring and beginning of the new harvest season the creators of abundance, our peasants, come out to the fields to sow with good aspirations and hopes. -- Islom Karimov
The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am determined to enjoy each day to the fullest. I don't want to wish away Christmas. I want to enjoy these last moments of Advent and look forward to Jesus's birth with anticipation. -- Shelley Shepard Gray
Immanuel, God with us in our nature, in our sorrow, in our lifework, in our punishment, in our grave, and now with us, or rather we with Him, in resurrection, ascension, triumph, and Second Advent splendor. -- Charles Spurgeon
The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any moment of your life. Life is Advent; life is recognizing the coming of the Lord -- Henri Nouwen
Trends in circulation and advertising - the rise of the Internet, which has made the daily newspaper look slow and unresponsive; the advent of Craigslist, which is wiping out classified advertising-have created a palpable sense of doom. -- Eric Alterman
God of hope, I look to you with an open heart and yearning spirit. During this Advent season, I will keep alert and awake, listening for your word and keeping to your precepts. My hope is in you. -- Matthew Kelly
Advent allows us to recover during this four-week journey. It begins four Sundays before Christmas all the way up to Christmas. It lets us breath in those moments of faithfulness and helps us recognize that God is working. -- Louie Giglio
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. -- James Henry Breasted
Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest. -- Clarissa Pinkola Estes
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even saw a theater production of 'Tom Thumb' during Advent at the State Theater in Danzig, which my mother took me to see. -- Gunter Grass
Advent is the season of the secret, the secret of the growth of Christ, of divine love growing in silenceâ?¦For nine months, Christ grew in his mother's body. By his own will, she formed him from herself, from the simplicity of her daily life. -- Caryll Houselander
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
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming. -- R. C. Sproul
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became a child. This is a healing memory; it brings hope. The purpose of the Church's year is continually to rehearse her great history of memories, to awaken the heart's memory so that it can discern the star of hope... -- Pope Benedict XVI
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings in the world. O that I might see His kingdom come! It is the characteristic of His saints to love His appearing, and to look for that blessed hope. "The Spirit and the bride say, Come." "Even so, come, Lord Jesus. -- Richard Baxter
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. -- Henry Rollins
The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards. -- John Nelson Darby
The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence. -- Robert Rainy
With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite. -- Jill Abramson
The advent of DVD/Blu-ray reissues of classic Hollywood and foreign films has been a boon to film buffs, who can now study their favorites in all their glistening detail and restored palettes. -- James Wolcott
With the advent of cell phones, especially with the very small microphone that attach to the cell phone itself, it's getting harder and harder I find, to differentiate between schizophrenics and people talking on a cell phone. -- Bob Newhart
With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. Hotels are now out of the question for my wife and I. -- Robert Powell
We in Britain stopped evolving gastronomically with the advent of the pie. Everything beyond that seemed like a brave, frightening new world. We knew the French were up to something across the Channel, but we didn't want anything to do with it. -- John Oliver
There have only been about a half dozen genuinely important events in the four-billion-year saga of life on Earth: single-celled life, multicelled life, differentiation into plants and animals, movement of animals from water to land, and the advent of mammals and consciousness. -- Elon Musk
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally changed the media eco-system, challenging established journalistic practice in what is known as the mainstream media: radio, television, newspapers and magazines. -- Lionel Barber
If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market were all going to help smaller companies thrive at the expense of the slow-moving giants of the Fortune 500, apparently you were wrong. -- James Surowiecki
The advent of Google+ and the emergence of the personalized web means this is more true than ever. Brands, and their advertising partners, must wake up to this challenge and define themselves with clarity, consistency and authenticity. Otherwise they just might find themselves shouting in a ghost town. -- Simon Mainwaring
I'm not a prophet; I can only use historical reality to come to a view of the future, and my view is that Africa will return to being African and not European. The advent of colonialism was foreign to the country itself, but it will return to what it was before the Europeans arrived. -- Wilbur Smith
I just thank God my husband and I found each other before the advent of social media. I can't imagine dating someone and seeing what they're doing on their Facebook page. And people breaking up with each other over texts now? We had to break up with each other face to face back then. -- Jen Lancaster
I would say the film world has stopped operating as one. We have divided it into Hindi movies, Bengali movies, Tamil movies and so on. Earlier, there was only one channel and we all knew what was going on. Today, it is hard to keep track of programmes due to the advent of regional channels. -- Mithun Chakraborty
Since the advent of the Internet - more recently compounded by blogging - everyone can be a published voice. Any cowardly, anonymous anger-monger can have an audience of thousands. That doesn't make them a journalist any more than my throwing an onion and a few carrots into a pot of boiling water makes me Julia Child. -- Lynda Resnick
Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the advent of this nation, men were walking on the moon, and I want us to recognize this is the kind of people that we are. We're creative with a lot of ingenuity and a lot of energy. -- Ben Carson
Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair. -- Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. -- Horace Bushnell
With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition. -- Arlo Guthrie
The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines. -- Henry Tillman
I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white. -- Damian Loeb
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope. -- Louie Giglio
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. -- Kevin Spacey
We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. -- Sara Sheridan
The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy. -- Paddy Ashdown
For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj. -- Mahatma Gandhi
It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom. -- Colin MacInnes
With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity. -- Robert Scoble
With regard to narrow passes, if you can occupy them first, let them be strongly garrisoned and await the advent of the enemy. -- Sun Tzu
More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power. -- Jimmy Hoffa
The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
God is coming! God is coming! All the element we swim in, this existence, echoes ahead the advent. God is coming! Can't you feel it? -- Walter Wangerin
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime. -- Kamala Harris
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and abundance, freedom and civilization. -- Murray Rothbard
With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday. -- Robert Powell
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover. -- Thomas Hardy
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed of ... the age of Atlantis. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts. -- Douglas Coupland
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate. -- Charles Mackay
Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness. -- Terry Eagleton
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property. -- Mahatma Gandhi
No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States. -- Henry Villard
I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media. -- Helen Fielding
Our world is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and with the advent of social media, what happens in New York now can be reported across the globe 60 seconds later. -- Stuart Rose
The short-term problems are economic - royalties, unions, irresponsible management. The long-term problems are artistic, and they started 40 years ago with the advent of television and the upgrading of films. -- Emanuel Azenberg
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it. -- Gustave Flaubert
Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic. -- Mel Torme
I read recently of the advent of a completely wireless house. Having just moved house and being drowned in billions of cords and cables, that sounds like a great thing to have. -- Julian Ovenden
With the advent of Trump Tower Live, the campaign`s new nightly broadcast, streamed over Facebook, rumors are once again, swirling of a potential Trump media empire to be launched after the election. -- Chris Hayes
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of his life; he inherited it from his ancestors and it never changed. -- Ludwig von Mises
With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential mark forever - we are all mini-digital celebrities and heroes to someone. -- Erik Qualman
The advent of digitally enhancing images - and the fact that actresses weren't protesting against that - created an environment where big corporations felt like they had total ownership over the bodies of actresses. -- Romola Garai
It is better to be early than too late in recognizing the passing of one era, the waning of old investment favorites and the advent of a new era affording new opportunities for the investor. -- Thomas Rowe Price, Jr.
The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral part of the feedback loop which actively shapes the content we are fed. -- Damian Loeb
I don't really like the Hollywood blockbuster bandwagon that exists right now. The industry and the advent of all the technology, has kind of lost its way. It's become very franchise driven and superhero driven. -- Peter Jackson
With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of dÃ©tente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity. -- Henry A. Kissinger

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