And herewith I shall end this year(1621). Only I shall remember one passage more, rather of mirth then of waight. One ye day called Christmas-day, ye Govr (William Bradford, Plymouth Colony) caled them out to worke, (as was used,) but ye most of this new-company excused them selves and said it wente against their consciences […]
Christmas Quotes
Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there’s the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.
Dear Lord, I’ve been asked, nay commanded, to thank Thee for the Christmas turkey before us, a turkey which was no doubt a lively, intelligent bird, a social being, capable of actual affection, nuzzling its young with almost human-like compassion. Anyway, it’s dead and we’re gonna eat it. Please give our respects to its family. […]
Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity.
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
America is a place where Jewish merchants sell Zen love beads to agnostics for Christmas.
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all […]
O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of winter.
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given – when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our […]
