Lesser cultural heroes -- prophets who foretold His mission, and apostles who spread the news of His first and second advents -- became His agents of enlightenment among the humans. ❋ Ph.D. Stanley Knick (2010)
With HBO as prominent as ever, and Showtime gaining by the nanosecond, not to mention the advents of original series on TNT, FX and USA, people are quickly realizing that TV right now at least is the better medium for quality storytelling. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I usually buy the cheap, candy advents that have nothing to do with Jesus just so the kids have a count down to Christmas. ❋ Holly (2009)
Great advents, it's hard to find updated versions. ❋ Unknown (2008)
These others are so great! makes me want to have multiple advents all over the house. craziness. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Multiple trees, festive dishes, advents and so on, it's wonderful. ❋ Holly (2007)
But with the advents of the telephone, television, and internet, less populated areas have the capacity to be just as informed as the people in more urban areas and can be swayed just as easily. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Added softness and luster have been recent advents in the manufacture of acrylic fibers and have greatly enhanced their use. ❋ Nancy J. Thomas (2002)
-- The two advents were signified by the two goats. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
Scripture, in the mouth of Jacob, ` And He shall be the desire of nations, 'meant symbolically His two advents, and that the nations would believe in Him; which facts you may now at length discern. ❋ 1819-1893 (2001)
These advents lived on in memory, lifetime after lifetime. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1998)
With the assassinations of King and the Kennedys, the advents of Wallace and Agnew, the mounting mad incantations of White House rationales for Vietnam, and such sorceries as Nixon's self-wrought exhumation and reanimation, those ten years passed like a malarial dream in which the unthinkable became the familiar, the surreal became the commonplace. ❋ Frady, Marshall (1972)
They had had no tidings of him since they had settled at the lake; but nearly all Bertie's advents were sudden and without warning. ❋ Mrs. George Croft Huddleston (N/A)
One recent study on the subject regards research as the fourth major industrial revolution to take place in American history, following the advents of steam mechanization, steel, electricity-and-internal combustion engines. ❋ United States. Congress. House. Committee On Science And Astronautics. (N/A)
But in this young minister the faith of a little child cannot be superseded by the advents of geology and carnal criticism. ❋ Various (N/A)
Jesus Christ, two advents, two states of man's nature. ❋ 1623-1662 (1944)
They have taught us through this that the enemies of man are his passions; that the Redeemer would be spiritual, and His reign spiritual; that there would be two advents, one in lowliness to humble the proud, the other in glory to exalt the humble; that Jesus Christ would be both God and man. ❋ 1623-1662 (1944)
Proof by the principles of the Rabbis, that there are two meanings; that there are two advents of the Messiah, a glorious and an humiliating one, according to their desert; that the prophets have prophesied of the Messiah only — the Law is not eternal, but must change at the coming of the ❋ 1623-1662 (1944)
I do not know if I would think much of that magazine now, but then I thought it wonderful, and its monthly advents were epochs to me. ❋ Lucy Maud (1917)
I remember that my observation was attracted to him curiously from the fact that my mother's eyes changed to a darker gray at his advents, as they did only when she was silently sacrificing herself. ❋ Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (1888)
