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Christmas Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling…
- What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my…
- Any one thinking of the Holy Child as born in December would mean by it exactly what we mean by it; that Christ is not…
- The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the sheep, the more…
- The great majority of people will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions;…
- Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
- This is, first and last, the real value of Christmas; in so far as the mythology remains at all it is a kind of happy…
- If a man called Christmas Day a mere hypocritical excuse for drunkenness and gluttony, that would be false, but it would have a fact hidden…
- Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
More Christmas Quotes
- In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea. — Richard Bach
- I'm sure most of us remember being a kid and you have all of this endless time where two weeks before Christmas… — Andrea Arnold
- For it is in giving that we receive. — Francis of Assisi
- Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by… — Dave Barry
- My family makes these vinegars - out of everything from grapes to peaches and cherries. We go through the whole process with… — Mario Batali
- The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to… — Pope Benedict XVI
- Online, there's no time. It's always Christmas. — Lewis Black
- I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's… — Lewis Black
- The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives… — Lionel Blue
- There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. — Erma Bombeck
- Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year. — Victor Borge
- I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come. — Richard Brautigan