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Charles Dickens 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, God bless Us, Every One!
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Charles Dickens Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away.
christmas heart men
Charles Dickens But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
christmas children home
Charles Dickens He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)
christmas girl father
Charles Dickens They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased.
christmas-carol marley
Charles Dickens Marley was dead: to begin with.
christmas happy-holidays forgiving
Charles Dickens I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
christmas names magic
Charles Dickens There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.
christian courage firsts
Charles Caleb Colton A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he knows it could not happen unless it first pleased God, and that which pleases Him must be best.
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Charles Caleb Colton My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.
christian lying thinking
Charles Caleb Colton In pulpit eloquence, the grand difficulty lies here--to give the subject all the dignity it so fully deserves, without attaching any importance to ourselves. The Christian messenger cannot think too highly of his prince, nor too humbly of himself.
christian years games
Charles Dickens Mr. Cruncher... always spoke of the year of our Lord as Anna Dominoes: apparently under the impression that the Christian era dated from the invention of a popular game, by a lady who had bestowed her name upon it.
christian prayer mean
Charles Studd Funds are low again, hallelujah! That means God trusts us and is willing to leave His reputation in our hands.
christian church tape
Charles Studd How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.
christian jesus prayer
Charles Studd If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.
christian gratitude jesus
Charles Stanley Another way Christ affects us is by inspiring our gratitude. He left the glories of heaven in order to become our Savior, and when we recognize that sacrifice, we are filled with thankfulness and praise.
christian jesus father
Charles Stanley When friends abandoned him, Paul asked God not to count their actions against them. He followed the example of Jesus, who prayed for the Father to forgive His persecutors. What's your response when friends let you down? Forgiveness is the choice that pleases God every time.
atheist believe mean
Charles Dickens I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
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Charles Stross I'm an atheist .I was raised in British reform Judaism, which is not like American reform Judaism, much less any other strain of organised religion. So: no cults here.
atheist believe waiting
Charles Stross I wish I was still an atheist. Believing I was born into a harsh, uncaring cosmos – in which my existence was a random roll of the dice and I was destined to die and rot and then be gone forever – was infinitely more comforting than the truth. Because the truth is that my God is coming back. When he arrives I’ll be waiting for him with a shotgun. And I’m keeping the last shell for myself.
atheist jesus men
Alan Watts Jesus was not the man he was as a result of making Jesus Christ his personal savior.
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Alan Alda I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
atheist if-there-is-a-god religion
Edmond de Goncourt If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
atheist philosophy men
David Hume A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion
atheist alive today
Kurt Vonnegut If God were alive today, He'd be an atheist.
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Bill O'Reilly It's just as much a stretch to believe in God as it is to be an Atheist