Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not…

“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which the story…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“History reveals that times of suffering for the church have also been times of looking upward. Tribulation has always sobered God’s people and encouraged…

— A.W. Tozer

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

— Stanley Hauerwas

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;…

— Ludwig von Mises

Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [...] The advent of hypertext is…

— Donald A. Norman

Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts…

— Uri Avnery

The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

— Sun Myung Moon

For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans.

— Kevin Spacey

“It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation...and instead to revel in the mystery.”

— Jerusalem Jackson Greer

“On this eve of Christmas, whether you feel yourself to be surrounded by earthly blessings or whether you feel your blessings to be few,…

— Kerry van der Vinne

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer market…

— James Surowiecki

I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new content, has…

— Tony Abbott

The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war…

— Paul Di Filippo

“I believe deeply that God does his best work in our lives during times of great heartbreak and loss, and I believe that much…

— Shauna Niequist

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

— Ninon de L'Enclos