Top 241 Advent Quotes & Sayings

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

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

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

The advent of interconnectedness and of weapons of mass destruction means that, increasingly, I share a destiny with my enemy.

With the advent of multiplexes, the audiences coming in are not bothered by who's in the film. We need not run after stars.

With respect to the relationship between nuclear weapons and the advent of détente, one has to consider two things. One, the nature of nuclear weapons in themselves, and secondly, the advent of nuclear parity.

Advent is a journey towards Bethlehem. May we let ourselves be drawn by the light of God made man.

With the advent of technology the world has surely become a smaller place.

Truth . . . and if mine eyes Can bear its blaze, and trace its symmetries, Measure its distance, and its advent wait, I am no prophet - I but calculate.

The emergence of cross-border coalitions and issues shows the advent of a whole new era in U.S.-Mexican and Mexico-California relations.

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

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

I appreciate Love Advent because they like to experiment with creatively different concepts that are unforgettable and fun to shoot!

No one felt it more than the President. I saw him repeatedly, and he fairly groaned at the inexplicable delay in the advent of help from the loyal States.

Obviously, this is a huge change with the advent of Lindsey Buckingham not being a part of Fleetwood Mac. We all wish him well and all the rest of it.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

The advent of interactive communications has created an inflection point where it's economical to provide education differently than in the past.

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

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.

The whole nature of photography has changed with the advent of a camera in everybody's hand.

It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope.

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

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

This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus... When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.

If we keep the path of virtue undefiled through devout and true knowledge, and do not deviate to either side, we will experience the advent of God revealed to us because of our dispassion. For 'I will sing a psalm and in a pure path I will understand when Thou wilt come to me' (cf. Ps. 101:1-2). The psalm stands for virtuous conduct; understanding indicates the spiritual knowledge, gained through virtue, by means of which we perceive God's advent, when we wait for the Lord vigilant in the virtues.

Before His visible advent in the flesh the Logos of God dwelt among the patriarchs and prophets in a spiritual manner, prefiguring the mysteries of His advent. After His incarnation He is present in a similar way not only to those who are still beginners, nourishing them spiritually and leading them toward the maturity of divine perfection, but also to the perfect, secretly pre-delineating in them the features of His future advent as if in an ikon.

Certainly the advent of technology and electronic commerce has had an immense impact on the real estate industry.

The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.

I was raised before the advent of DVD players in cars and iPads at the dinner table.

I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

I wish for the advent of an era in which everybody makes and appreciates good music.

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

With the fragmentation of television audiences and the advent of cable and on-demand services, the prestige of being an anchor is not what it was in the days of Walter Cronkite.

It was with the advent of the Laudie London era that I realized the whole teenage epic was tottering to doom.

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

The celebration of Advent is possible only to those who are troubled in soul, who know themselves to be poor and imperfect, and who look forward to something greater to come.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

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

The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.

With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

After a person dies, there is always something like a feeling of stupefaction, so difficult is it to comprehend this unexpected advent of nothingness and to resign oneself to believing it.

The video game industry traditionally has been a very male-dominated field. You know, with the advent of the iPhone, the number of women gamers exploded.

Just as the teaching of the Law and the prophets, being harbingers of the coming advent of the Logos in the flesh, guide our souls to Christ (cf. Gal. 3:24), so the glorified incarnate Logos of God is Himself a harbinger of His spiritual advent, leading our souls forward by His own teachings to receive His divine and manifest advent. He does this ceaselessly, by means of the virtues converting those found worthy from the flesh to the spirit. And He will do it at the end of the age, making manifest what has hitherto been hidden from men.

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

By his own will Christ was dependent on Mary during Advent: he was absolutely helpless; he could go nowhere but where she chose to take him; he could not speak; her breathing was his breath; his heart beat in the beating of her heart.... In the seasons of our Advent - waking, working, eating, sleeping, being - each breath is a breathing of Christ into the world.

The advent of truth, like the dawn of day, agitates the elements, while it disperses the gloom.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

I don't think we'll understand Advent correctly until we see it as a preparation for a revolution.

Negativity is often looked upon [in the USA] as a kind of thought crime. Not since the advent of socialist realism has the world witnessed such pathological upbeatness.

Delhi becomes a gas chamber every year with the advent of winters, mainly due to stubble burning.

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

With the advent of radio and recording, music became an industry rather than just a tradition.

With the advent of wearable technology, companies will soon be able to better provide ads to customers based on their real-time activity.

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

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

With the advent of Twitter and Facebook and other social networking sites, genuine privacy can only be found by renting a private villa for a holiday.

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

I think the advent of things like YouTube have made it possible for creators to tell stories cheaply and efficiently and to have a built-in audience.