Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh,… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
“No one told her Trader Joe's sold Advent calendars for cats. She found out on her own, rolling her card down the… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I affirm that gain is precisely that which comes oftener to the bad man than to the good; for illegitimate gains never… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Before the advent of Hitler or Stalin, who took their power from the German and the Russian people, measures were thrust upon… — Edwin Arthur Hall Copy Share Image
I had fallen in love with a young man..., and we were planning to get married. And then he died of subacute… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
Advent's intention is to awaken the most profound and basic emotional memory within us, namely, the memory of the God who became… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Self-discipline, although difficult, and not always easy while combating negative emotions, should be a defensive measure. At least we will be able… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The advent of the Internet exposed the fact that the old business model for newspapers was broken. The world wide web fundamentally… — Lionel Barber Copy Share Image
The advent of the internet has made so many things possible. Self- published recreational journalism has always been around; but back when… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
Shivaji was the greatest Hindu king that India had produced within the last thousand years; one who was the very incarnation of… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
But if so great a power is shown to have followed and to be still following the dispensation of His suffering, how… — Justin Martyr Copy Share Image
If I were but sure that I should live to see the coming of the Lord, it would be the joyfulest tidings… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
“During Advent, we have to sit in our own anxiety and funkiness long enough to know what a Promised Land would be… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
