Abstinence Quote by Anonymous

“The first inkling of this notion had come to him the Christmas before, at his daughter's place in Vermont. On Christmas Eve, as indifferent…

— John Crowley

When he was dry, he believed it was alcohol he needed, but when he had a few drinks in him, he knew it was…

— Denis Johnson

“He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas and escorting them to the cemetery when they died.…

— James Joyce

“He had neither companions nor friends, church nor creed. He lived his spiritual life without any communion with others, visiting his relatives at Christmas…

— James Joyce

“But old Christmas smiled as he laid this cruel-seeming spell on the out-door world, for he meant to light up the home with new…

— George Eliot

“He knew perfectly well (even if he wasn’t inclined to admit it) that the material body had a spiritual aspect. He knew that “spirit,”…

— Sol Luckman

And it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that…

— Charles Dickens

In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be…

— Charles Dickens

“It was Christmas but that was not a day or a season - it was an expectation, a promise of joy and peace, an…

— Randall Wallace

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…

— Charles Dickens

It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God…

— J. I. Packer