It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.
Christmas Quotes
We do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas. First, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it. And second, because we find no scriptural warrant for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior. Consequently, its observance is a superstition.
People say that Christmas today is too commercialized. If you spend money to give people joy, you are not being commercial. It is only when you feel obliged to do something about Christmas that the spirit is spoiled.
While shepherds watch’d their flocks by night, All seated on the ground, The Angel of the Lord came down, And Glory shone around.
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
One of the least pleasing effects of modern refinement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holiday customs. It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly less characteristic surface. Many of the […]
Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
What Child is this who, laid to rest On Mary’s lap is sleeping? Whom angels greet with anthems sweet, While shepherds watch are keeping? This, this is Christ the King, Whom shepherds guard and angels sing; Haste, haste, to bring Him laud, The Babe, the Son of Mary.
What accounts for this split? Why is the distance between the leadership and the laity in mainline Christianity so vast? After all, Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, regularly ignore their leaders on a great many issues. But I think that one reason that so many Christians were so unwilling to heed leadership arguments on the […]
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
