Quotes of: Advent Keyword

Advent creates people, new people.

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Everything in its season, and turnips in Advent.

Spanish

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

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional

While it is good that we seek to know the Holy One, it is probably not so good to presume that we ever complete the task.

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salvage the blessing. And the one who gave it would savor the surprise.

Celebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional

Not everyone can wait: neither the sated nor the satisfied nor those without respect can wait. The only ones who can wait are people who carry restlessness around with them.

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

A love that left people alone in their guilt would not have real people as its object. So, in vicarious responsibility for people, and in His love for real human beings, Jesus becomes the one burdened by guilt.

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

The mysterious, invisible authority of the divine child over human hearts is more solidly grounded then the visible and resplendent power of earthly rulers. Ultimately all authority on earth must serve only the authority of Jesus Christ over humankin...

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

When asking God for direction, ask Him to give you ears to hear it and the will and strength to follow it. Say, “God show me what to do and enable me to do it.

The Miracle of Christmas: 15 Inspirational Stories to Read Through the Advent Season

God can make a new beginning with people whenever God pleases, but not people with God. Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the o...

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God’s presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn’t understand everything that was happening, but she was certain that God would be with he...

The Miracle of Christmas: 15 Inspirational Stories to Read Through the Advent Season

I am not an enemy of Adventism.

Walter Martin

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the...

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

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

Henry Rollins

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

Arlo Guthrie

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

Marilyn Manson

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

Todd Akin

The advent of a new religion, making serious and impressive claims to embody a new revelation from on high, is not a frequent occurrence.

Robert Rainy

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas message comes to tell us that all our ideas are wrong, and that what we take to be evil and dark is really good and light becau...

God Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

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

Kevin Spacey