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 […]
Christmas Quotes
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any […]
Forget about the crackers, And forget about the candy; I’m sure a box of chocolates Would never come in handy; I don’t like oranges, I don’t want nuts, And I have got a pocket-knife That almost cuts. But, oh! Father Christmas, if you love me at all, Bring me a big, red india-rubber ball!
Most all the time, the whole year round, There ain’t no flies on me; But jest ‘fore Christmas, I’m as good as I kin be!
Call a truce, then to our labors – let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if “faint and forced the laughter,” and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.
I do like Christmas on the whole – In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
