Christmas Quote by Elizabeth Strout

“They weren't my family and it wasn't my holiday, but I was orphaned and an atheist and I would take what I could get.”

— Michael Chabon

“My uncle Ernie didn't believe in God. At least that's what he said. But he always Went to church on Christmas. Which I thought…

— Eugene H. Peterson

“As an atheist hates Christmas, I hate the fourth of July.”

— Jarod Kintz

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

— Andrew Sean Greer

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

— Anne Lamott

“He said he was raising his kids to believe in the will not the rules and that we would go to the Unitarian Church.”

— Susan Barnes

“In celebrating Christmas, we were not just remembering, we were reliving the fact that God had become one of us.”

— Lanier Ivester

“The familiar warmth from the church saturated his heart. Was this what Mom meant by Christmas joy?”

— Jennifer Gladen

“He has nothing personal against Christ; though raised Unitarian—with its glaring omission of Jesus and a hymnal so unorthodox that it was years before…

— Andrew Sean Greer

“Unitarians just don't talk much about our need for God's grave. They have a higher opinion of human beings than I have ever felt…

— Nadia Bolz-Weber

“The familiar warmnth from the church saturated his heart again. Was this what Mom meant by Christmas joy?”

— Jennifer Gladen

“My darling atheist,” she recalled telling him, “why do you help me decorate a Christmas tree to celebrate the birth of Christ?” He laughed.…

— Erik Larson