Quotes

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Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.

Anonymous

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Christmas is the one day of the year that carries real hope and promise for all mankind.

Edgar Guest, The Gift of Christmas

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I thank God for Christmas. Would that it lasted all year. For on Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day, all the world is a better place, and men and women are more loveable. Love itself seeps into every heart, and miracles happen.

Peter Marshall

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you. Yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.

Mother Teresa

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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Love came down at Christmas; Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Star and angels gave the sign.

Christina Rossetti

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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Joy is the true gift of Christmas, not the expensive gifts that call for time and money... Let us pray that this presence of the liberating joy of God shines forth in our lives.

Pope Benedict XVI

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Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first.

George Matthew Adams

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Holiday and Holy Day, Christmas is more than a Yule log, holly or a tree. It is more than natural good cheer and the giving of gifts. Christmas is even more than the feast of the home and of children, the feast of love and friendship. It is more than all these together. Christmas is Christ, the Christ of justice and charity, of freedom and peace.

Francis Cardinal Spellman

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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He came, not as a flash of light or as an unapproachable conqueror, but as one whose first cries were heard by a peasant girl and a sleepy carpenter. God tapped humanity on its collective shoulder, "Pardon me," he said, and eternity interrupted time, divinity interrupted carnality, and heaven interrupted the earth in the form of a baby. Christianity was born in one big heavenly interruption.

Max Lucado

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.

Frank McKibben

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If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: "God with us." We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!

John MacArthur

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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Just as those first shepherds heard the celestial music echoing over the countryside, and the Magi from the east discovered that a strange new star had come into their universe, so thousands today are hearing by faith the distant melodies of heaven and are remembering once again the true meaning of Christmas.

Rev. Billy Graham

Reprinted from A Classic Christmas by permission of HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

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May the hope, the peace, the joy, and the love represented by the birth in Bethlehem this night fill our lives and become part of all that we say and do.

Rev. Richard J. Fairchild

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“Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

- C.S. Lewis

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“A man cannot do good before he is made good.”

- Martin Luther

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“If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. ”

- Heber J. Grant

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“Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother. ”

- Mark 3:35 (Revised Standard Version)

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“Goals determine what you're going to be.”

- Julius Irving

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“Unless humility proceeding, accompany, and follow all the good we accomplish, unless we keep our eyes fixed on it, pride will snatch everything right out of our hands.”

- Augustine of Hippo

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“Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense with age.”

- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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“Hope, struggle, fear, expectation and fulfillment are all part of our Advent experience. ”

- Connections

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“In Christ a new creation is coming to birth: renew yourselves. ”

- Gregory Nazianzen

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"Take care of your feet and theyll take care of you.”

- Maggie Spilner

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“The Bible is to me the most precious thing in the world just because it tells me the story of Jesus. ”

- George Macdonald