Famous Quotes & Sayings

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.

Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

Patty Loveless

I cut 'Diamond in My Crown' in my home in Georgia, because I wanted to use an old 1848 pump organ that my mother-in-law had gotten for Emory for Christmas one year. His mother would be proud to know that pump organ was made use of.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

Bill Vaughan

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Patricia Heaton

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

Linda Evangelista

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

We have the hope that it will be before Christmas.

We were glad we got this deployment order after Christmas and got the opportunity to stay home with our families.

Time does not ease the pain. I feel that if she had been taken through natural causes, it would have been a terrible thing, but it would have been acceptable. Doing something like that, and at Christmas, is unacceptable.

Tom Izzo

We've gotten such a good system down, my managers can get a lot of stuff done. It was unbelievable around here (Sunday) night. If you open the door in that room it was Santa's elves working on Christmas Day. They were going at it. There were sparks coming out of that room. They all take some ownership.

Chad Taylor

Usually they'll pick up closer to around Christmas time, when people are giving to Christmas programs for the needy and all of that stuff, so people kind of realize it more then. But right now it's probably one of the harder times,

With the two- and three-year-old talent that I have now, it should make things interesting around Christmas.

William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

William Shakespeare

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

Rosecrans Baldwin

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

Paul O'Grady

I'd rather do community service than sit and write a load of Christmas cards.

Most Christians in the community prefer to shop at their Christian bookstore.

Me, personally, I don't know exactly what Christmas feels like.

Why would someone on Christmas night come into your yard and want to thoroughly destroy Christmas for a family, I don't understand that.

John Ortberg

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

You'll see a few times during Christmas time $399 notebooks,

John Tesh

You'll hear Christians being interviewed from time-to-time, but you won't hear us pray on-air. It's a Christian guy hosting a secular show.

Ryan Watson

Winning the Christmas tournament was great. That really seemed to spark us.

Jessie Mueller

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

Jerome Bettis

It'd be nice but it's not necessary. I started in so many, that's not critical. It wasn't on my Christmas list.

Pavel Datsyuk

I thought it was a Christmas present from Santa, a Russian Santa.

Aidan Quinn

It is Daniel trying to think 'WWCD' -- what would Christ do. What would Christ say?

Denis Leary

I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, Merry f**kin' Christmas!

Bede Griffiths

It is no longer a question of a Christian going about to convert others to the faith, but of each one being ready to listen to the other and so to grow together in mutual understanding.

Barry Manilow

For a Jewish guy, I've recorded a lot of Christmas albums.

B. B. King

Charlie Christian had no more impact on my playing than Django Reinhardt or Lonnie Johnson. I just wanted to play like him. I wanted to play like all of them. All of these people were important to me. I couldn't play like any of them, though ...