“The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.”
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“I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.”
“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.”
“T'was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.”
“Santa is our culture's only mythic figure truly believed in by a large percentage of the population. It's a fact that most of the true believers are under eight years old, and that's a pity.”
“Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.”
“Pets, like their owners, tend to expand a little over the Christmas period.”
“I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.”
“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
“Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.”
“The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.”
“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”
“Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.”
“Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.”
“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
“I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.”
“Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.”
“Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.”
“In the United States Christmas has become the rape of an idea.”
“There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed - the four-poster - I'll be needing that to die in.”
“I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.”
“Even though we're a week and a half away from Thanksgiving, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.”
“Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.”
“You have to remind kids to stay connected to the meaning of Christmas. Sometimes it takes a little bit of effort, but it's so worth it.”