Famous Quotes & Sayings

The question last Christmas was, if you put up a Web site will people come? And sure enough they came. ... Now we're in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Drake Bell

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet.

Ronald Reagan

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.

Bruce Wilkinson

When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

T. D. Jakes

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

Henry B. Eyring

'You better do a lot of praying' is good counsel for all of the Lord's servants, new or seasoned. It is what His wise servants do. They pray. The disciples of Jesus Christ when He lived on the earth noticed that about Him.

Henry B. Eyring

You must have faith to pray. You must have faith to ponder the word of God. You must have faith to do those things and go to those places which invite the Spirit of Christ and the Holy Ghost.

Francine Rivers

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

Adam Green

Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.

Gina Rodriguez

Being half Jewish, we grew up with Christmas trees but had Jewish ornaments.

We knew we had this game coming up so as soon as this last game was done we got back in the weight room and tried to run. I think I had about five meals on Christmas Day, but you just got to work a little extra harder and try lose the weight after.

We left off playing pretty good, so I wasn't excited about the (Christmas) break. But we've had a couple of good days of practice this week.

We're trying to teach Kentucky youth that being an on-mission Christian is a lifestyle, not a location. So if they're venturing out of the state of Kentucky in such a great time of need from the Gulf Coast, I think that is just awesome.

Ellen G. White

The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.

Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords?

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

Could the one whom Christians worship be merely a mythological creation, or is he real? These questions have exercised many great minds and have been the dominant issue in New Testament studies during this century.

Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fact that God offered a way for man to return to a positive relationship with Him.

Bernard of Clairvaux

I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'

Clement Clarke Moore

T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.

Clement Clarke Moore

The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there.

Clement Clarke Moore

Now, 'Dasher!' now, 'Dancer!' now, 'Prancer' and 'Vixen!' On, 'Comet!' on, 'Cupid!' on, 'Donner' and 'Blitzen!'

Clement Clarke Moore

As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, when they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky. So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, with the sleigh full of toys, and St. Nicholas too.

Dante Alighieri

The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed.

Dan Savage

I don’t understand how real Christians let that little f--ker get away with that.

Dan Savage

I'm one of those gay people who's constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to live now and not to be Ennis and Jack [from Brokeback Mountain] or whatever - not that I'd mind being Ennis for half an hour. But it's been so much worse recently. It still is terrible. In Iran, they're hanging gay teenagers. I'm grateful for how far the United States, even with its crazy Christians, has come on a lot of issues. And the fact that I get called a faggot occasionally by a crack addict, while annoying, certainly isn't a lobotomy and prison.

Dan Savage

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

Dan Quayle

What the media wants and what the media demands of Christians is very simply this: your silence.

Dan Quayle

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Cynthia Ozick

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.