Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent… — Charles Mackay 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
Two hundred years ago, before the advent of capitalism, a man's social status was fixed from the beginning to the end of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
My relationship with Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm reaches far back into my childhood. I grew up with Grimm's fairy tales. I even… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I think there is no doubt that the advent of 24/7 news channels, which are voracious in their demand for constant new… — Tony Abbott Copy Share Image
With the advent of radical and accessible technology, each one of us, for the first time in history, is creating an influential… — Erik Qualman Copy Share Image
With the advent of chivalry, the art of boxing waned. The evolution of feudal aristocracy, with other and widely different exercises, pastimes… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Absolute freedom need not be lost as the price we must pay for the advent of civilization. Man may achieve liberty and… — Murray Rothbard 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
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
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
“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
“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
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 My real stories are all out of date.… — Sara Gruen Copy Share Image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 advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
Before the advent of artificial light, we had 13, 14 hours in bed every night... and so what we experience now is… — Jessa Gamble Copy Share Image
If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not… — Torii Mototada Copy Share Image
How can God stoop lower than to come and dwell with a poor humble soul? Which is more than if he had… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting,… — Karl Rahner 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
It is this ideal of progress through cumulative effort rather than through genius—progress by organised effort, progress which does not wait for… — William Wickenden Copy Share Image
“Moonless darkness stands between. Past, the Past, no more be seen! But the Bethlehem-star may lead me To the sight of Him… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
Whether railroads or electricity or the Internet, there is always some sense that this is the new, redemptive platform - that finally,… — Keller Easterling 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
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
