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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and f...

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Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner.

Christmas and Easter are attitudinal bookends for an enlightened world view. With an enlightened vie...

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Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Let him into the mire and muck of our world. For only if we let him in can he pull us out.

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Max LucadoCelebrating Christmas with Jesus: An Advent Devotional

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving ...

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Mother TeresaLove: A Fruit Always in Season

Christmas is God lighting a candle; and you don't light a candle in a room that's already full of su...

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N.T. WrightFor All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church

It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, ...

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Hey, great idea: if you have kids, give your partner reading vouchers next Christmas. Each voucher e...

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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living...

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The magi, as you know, were wise men--wonderfully wise men--who brought gifts to the Babe in the man...

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I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldn’t help but fall prey to the c...

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This is the way the wheel turns, coming at last to full circle, with wild as well as tame at he crib...

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P. L. TraversThe Fox at the Manger

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent...

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From a theological point of view, Easter is the center of the Church year; but Christmas is the most...

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Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.

He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and...

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Rick WarrenThe Purpose of Christmas

I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I ...

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Robert FulghumAll I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

... 'But Gold was not all. The other kings bring Frank Innocence and Mirth.' | Darcourt was startled...

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Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must...

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We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it...

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What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important fact...

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I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a c...

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For this was Christmas, which had always been a time of magic, to him and to all the world.

Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy ...

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I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if wha...

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It's supposed to be jolly, with mistletoe and holly... and other things ending in olly.

NAUGHTY AND NICE? said Death. BUT IT'S EASY TO BE NICE IF YOU'RE RICH. IS THIS FAIR?Albert wanted to...

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Tapping a little bell, I leaned on the desk and turned to look at a small, traditionally decorated C...

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Thomas LigottiThe Nightmare Factory

Into this world, this demented innin which there is absolutely no room for him at all,Christ comes u...

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At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, ...

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Every night is Christmas Eve on old East Main,Sailors and their sweethearts all agree.Neon signs of ...

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Of course there is a Santa Claus. It’s just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So th...

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Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The realit...

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Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fa...

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A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man's heart through half the year.

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charit...

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Another Christmas PoemBlood Christmas, here again.Let us raise a loving cup:Peace on earth, goodwill...

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For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time ...

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Will SelfThe Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future

It was Christmas Day and Danny the Car Wiper hit the street junksick and broke after seventy-two hou...

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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pou...

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And families now, families who have been separated throughout the year, assemble once more together....

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Agatha ChristieHercule Poirot's Christmas

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day...

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The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees h...

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Andy RooneyAndy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

The Christmas tree is a symbol of love, not money. There's a kind of glory to them when they're all ...

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Andy RooneyAndy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit

Gerald Middleton was a man of mildly but persistently depressive temperament. Such men are not at th...

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Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!

CALVIN:This whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all the myster...

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Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter ...

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Bill WattersonIt's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to ...

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Bill WattersonThe Essential Calvin and Hobbes

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think ...

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When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - ...

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The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message ...

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Brian Cox (physicist)There's Probably No God: the Atheists' Guide to Christmas

If God annihilates or creates or deflects a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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If God annihilates or deflects or creates a unit of matter, He has created a new situation at that p...

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Always winter but never Christmas.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plen...

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To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace an...

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The curtains of his bed were drawn aside; and Scrooge, starting up into a half-recumbent attitude, f...

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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall ...

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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Welcome, old aspirations, glittering creatures of an ardent underneath the holly! We know you, and h...

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Best and happiest of all, the Time before him was his own, to make amends in!‘I will live in the Pas...

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There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say...

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I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the venerati...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

They are Man's and they cling to me, appealing from their fathers. This boy is Ignorance and this gi...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

And how did little Tim behave?” asked Mrs Cratchit, when she had rallied Bob on his credulity and Bo...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

I have always thought of Christmastime, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, ...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and...

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But why do spirits walk the earth, and why do they come to me?""It is required of every man," the Gh...

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... I have always thought of Christmas-time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasa...

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Charles DickensA Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings

Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itsel...

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What images do I associate with the Christmas music as I see them set forth on the Christmas Tree?.....

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...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeli...

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Christmas is a time in which, of all times in the year, the memory of every remediable sorrow, wrong...

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Charles DickensThe Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Hark the herald angels sing "Glory to the new-born king." Peace on earth and mercy mild God and s...

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And I'll close by saying this. Because anti-Semitism is the godfather of racism and the gateway to t...

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I had never before been a special fan of that great comedian Phyllis Diller, but she utterly won my ...

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I think commercialism helps Christmas and I think that the more capitalism we can inject into the Ch...

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Its easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket.

I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day. Whoever I ha...

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Craig FergusonAmerican on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went...

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Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his ...

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Thank you," he says."Thank who?""I don't know.

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Dave EggersA Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Residents of the squatter community of Christiana, Denmark, for example, have a Christmastide ritual...

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David GraeberFragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

On a busy day twenty-two thousand people come to visit Santa, and I was told that it is an elf's lot...

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The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-y...

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A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of ...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

Advent creates people, new people.

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withs...

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Dietrich BonhoefferGod Is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

After that I went home and Sally put what was left of me to bed; next day, being a Christian family,...

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