Mother Teresa
Missionary, Nun
"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."
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Advent
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Sun Myung Moon
Religious Leader
"No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely."
Haruki Murakami
Writer
"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."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Theologian
"Advent creates people, new people."
Alex Campbell
Politician, Activist
"We have witnessed the terrible increases in the incidence of alcoholism, the advent of drug dependency, the protests, marches, strikes and human alienation."
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"Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj."
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"With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad."
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