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.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. (“A Christmas Carol”)
