Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
For outlandish creatures like us, on our way to a heart, a brain, and courage, Bethlehem is not the end of our… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay Copy Share Image
Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is… — Mel Torme Copy Share Image
Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Advent is a time of waiting, of expectation, of silence. Waiting for our Lord to be born. A pregnant woman is so… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“History reveals that times of suffering for the church have also been times of looking upward. Tribulation has always sobered God’s people… — A.W. Tozer Copy Share Image
It would be easy to show that at our present rate of progress the kingdoms of this world never could become the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it… — Harold Speed Copy Share Image
Before this country came on the scene, for thousands of years people did things the same way. Within 200 years of the… — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
Hindu philosophy was one of the greatest beneficiaries of the advent and the teachings of the Lord Buddha. I revere Buddha as… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
To predispose our mind to welcome the Lord who, as we say in the Creed, one day will come to judge the… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is… — James Toback Copy Share Image
Instead of getting swept up in a whirlwind of banal 'holiday' parties, useless gift exchanges and harried shopping, my family tries hard… — Rachel Campos-Duffy Copy Share Image
When you really consider what takes place when we get to Easter, it all starts here at this moment, in this season… — Jonathan Roumie Copy Share Image
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them,… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“It really is possible to live in a state of Advent schizophrenia, where you celebrate the birth of the Messiah while actively… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
“Even though God’s methods of speaking to them were different, Mary and Joseph’s response was the same. They both responded with obedience.” — Nick Chellsen Copy Share Image
With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
The advent of the mobile phone was a disaster. We are forced to listen, open-mouthed, to other people's intimate conversations. Increasingly, we… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
My platitudes don't hold their interest and I can hardly blame them for that. My real stories are all out of date.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image
The Vedic literatures predicted that after the advent of Lord Caitanya five hundred years ago, there would be a Golden Age of… — Mukunda Goswami Copy Share Image
It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
When I lived in California, 1984 to '87, it was a Republican state. Sacramento where I lived was 73% Democrat voter registration,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
In the silence of a midwinter dusk, there is a sound so faint that for all you can tell it may be… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“The word “advent” essentially means “arrival” or “coming.” Christians have traditionally observed it during the four weeks leading up to Christmas. It… — Nick Chellsen Copy Share Image
Let us hope that the advent of a successful flying machine, now only dimly foreseen and nevertheless thought to be possible, will… — Octave Chanute Copy Share Image
“the motto “Shop less, live more, save the earth,” the team at Operation Noah, anxious about climate change, is promoting a series… — Gerry Bowler Copy Share Image
“As the world around us surges into a frenzied and festive December, let's take a step away from the party and ask… — Kerry van der Vinne Copy Share Image
This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things… — Mark Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Although I'm not prepared to move up my prediction of a computer passing the Turing test by 2029, the progress that has… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Kalecki thus precisely predicted the economic and political U-turn that occurred with the advent of neoliberalism. Kalecki also argued that fundamental institutional… — Jim Stanford Copy Share Image
The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
17th century philosophers were not in a position to understand the mind as well as we can today, since the advent of… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
When I first arrived to Congress in 1975, I would spend several hours every week with Republicans - having lunch, drinking a… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
Jobs, as such, are a relatively new concept. People may have always worked, but until the advent of the corporation in the… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
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