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Advent Quotes

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Advent increases our hope, a hope which does not disappoint. The Lord never lets us down.
Pope Francis

Authors on Advent Quotes: Louie Giglio Sun Myung Moon Alex Campbell James Toback Mahatma Gandhi Louis Moreau Gottschalk William Gurnall Henry Rollins Pope Francis Harold Speed Theodore Bikel Joseph A. Schumpeter Dietrich Bonhoeffer Haruki Murakami Thomas Hardy Lionel Shriver Colin Meloy Marilyn Manson Torii Mototada Mother Teresa Bill McKibben Ninon de L'Enclos
2.
At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God's own love and concern.
Mother Teresa

3.
Advent: the time to listen for footsteps - you can't hear footsteps when you're running yourself.
Bill McKibben

4.
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
Louie Giglio

5.
No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.
Sun Myung Moon

6.
Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.
Lionel Shriver

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Advent is the season that can remind us God is working while we're waiting and we're really waiting with God.
Louie Giglio

8.
After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could.
Theodore Bikel

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With the advent of winter, her eyes seemed to take on a greater transparency, a transparency that lead nowhere. Occassionally, for no particular reason, Naoko would gaze into my eyes as if searching for something. Each time I was filled with odd sensations of lonliness and inadequecy.
Haruki Murakami

10.
Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Whereas formerly, before the advent of machinery, the commonest article you could pick up had a life and warmth which gave it individual interest, now everything is turned out to such a perfection of deadness that one is driven to pick up and collect, in sheer desperation, the commonest rubbish still surviving from the earlier periods.
Harold Speed

12.
Advent creates people, new people.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

13.
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

14.
We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation.
Alex Campbell

15.
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
William Gurnall

16.
If you will take it into your mind to be sincere in throwing away your life for your master, you will not have the slightest fear or trembling even with the advent of innumerable impending calamities.
Torii Mototada

17.
Beethoven and Liszt have contributed to the advent of long hair.
Louis Moreau Gottschalk

18.
With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.
Henry Rollins

19.
For one thing, to predict the advent of big business was considering the conditions of Marx's day an achievement in itself.
Joseph A. Schumpeter

20.
When women are secret they are secret indeed; and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
Thomas Hardy

21.
Prog-rock and concept records and some ambitious projects were kind of anathema post-punk. They were destroyed with the advent of punk rock. You don't necessarily need to have a degree in music composition to play in a rock band anymore, which is a great thing.
Colin Meloy

22.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
Marilyn Manson

23.
Boxing is not coming back. There's not going to be a new Ali or a new Tyson. What's happened to movies is happening to boxing-that is, too much availability of alternative, similar entertainment. Movies started to become diluted with the advent of television; that has been mirrored by the dilution of boxing, with kickboxing and absolute, extreme homicidal fighting.
James Toback