Advent Quotes

Advent creates people, new people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Advent calendars are the best things made for Christmas time.

— Anonymous

Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.

— Louis Moreau Gottschalk

“Advent slows the rush of a chaotic world into a whisper of peace.”

— Allene vanOirschot

Advent is not about a sentimental waiting for the Baby Jesus,

— Richard Rohr

“In celebrating Christmas, we were not just remembering, we were reliving the fact that God had become one of us.”

— Lanier Ivester

“Our first step toward victorious eschatology is placing the inauguration of God’s kingdom at Jesus’ first advent. ”

— Stan Newton

“The Kingdom of God is the already but not yet". ~R. Alan Woods [1998]”

— R. Alan Woods

Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.

— Bill McKibben

The advent of self-government for the Iraqi people is a watershed moment in their history.

— Todd Akin

I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

— Damian Loeb

“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

“From the manger to the empty tomb, the message is the same: “Do not be afraid.”

— Nick Chellsen

The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize him at any…

— Henri Nouwen

Long before the advent of what scientists and scholars consider to be the beginning of human civilization, there was an age undreamed…

— Frederick Lenz

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For Christians, Advent reminds us why we need Christmas in the first place. It relies not only the grace of God but…

— Michael J. Knowles

The advent of the digital age and the immediacy and convenience of digital video and photography allows people to become an integral…

— Damian Loeb

No class or group or party in Germany could escape its share of responsibility for the abandonment of the democratic Republic and…

— William L. Shirer

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and…

— Edward Felten

After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given…

— Theodore Bikel

We are apt to consider that invention is the result of spontaneous action of some heavenborn genius, whose advent we must patiently…

— John Ambrose Fleming

The season of Advent means there is something on the horizon the likes of which we have never seen before ... What…

— Jan L. Richardson

With the advent of digital imaging I made the transition from trying to figure out how to do things to creating objects,…

— John Dykstra

“It is for those who long to be re-enchanted by the very old, very true, very beautiful story of Christmas. It is…

— Lanier Ivester

One of the marks of our world is perhaps this reversal: we live according to a generalized image-repertoire. Consider the United Sates,…

— Roland Barthes

With the advent of this kind of TMZ culture, it sadly seems to have infiltrated the vanguard of film commentary. I see…

— Nicolas Cage

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

— Kerry van der Vinne

I was asking questions which nobody else had asked before, because nobody else had actually looked at certain structures. Therefore, as I…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

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

— Shauna Niequist

I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For…

— Chuck Klosterman

“The house lights go off and the footlights come on. Even the chattiest stop chattering as they wait in darkness for the…

— Frederick Buechner

The music business has made a 360. It's a whole 'nother game. It's not nearly what it was. And I fear for…

— Smokey Robinson

Since the advent of the atomic bomb, the United States has always needed two kinds of enemies. On one level, it has…

— Michael Ruppert

“The excitement of the first Sunday in Advent had hardly died down when the sixth of December came around, one of the…

— Anonymous

“The gifts are intensifiers of desire for Christ himself in much the same way that fasting is. When you give a gift…

— John Piper

A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out…

— Mary Blakely

“May the holy ache of loneliness this Christmas awaken in every heart a longing for His presence.”

— Allene vanOirschot

We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.

— Max Lucado

“God's movement is often abrupt and unsettling rather than predictable and settling.”

— Michael Joseph Brown