Every year at Christmastime a whole set of emotions sweeps over me – emotions which probably go back to my childhood. The first emotion is wondering if I’m going to get any presents. Then it changes to “Hooray, I got some presents!” Then it changes to “Is that all the presents I got?”
Christmas Quotes
There is a stage in a child’s life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal character of Christmas or Easter. I have been told of a very small and very devout boy who was heard murmuring to himself on Easter morning a poem of his own composition which began ‘Chocolate eggs […]
“A merry Christmas, uncle! God save you!” cried a cheerful voice. It was the voice of Scrooge’s nephew, who came upon him so quickly that this was the first intimation he had of his approach. “Bah!” said Scrooge, “Humbug!” He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of […]
Thank God for the ‘commercialization’ of Christmas. If it weren’t for that, our society would have no Christmas at all.
You believe in God or you don’t. If you do, how you believe in Him is a personal matter. Maybe you think He’s in the home office a dozen multiverses away working on a really big project while a little window we call reality is running in the corner of His screen, and He checks […]
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
The magi, as you know, were wise men – wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, […]
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
