#chris

'The war in Iraq - if Osama was a Christian - it's the Christmas present he never would have expected. ↗

— Michael Scheuer

#christmas #expected #iraq #never #present

The truth is the Super Bowl long ago became more than just a football game. It's part of our culture like turkey at Thanksgiving and lights at Christmas, and like those holidays beyond their meaning, a factor in our economy. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#ball game #became #beyond #bowl #christmas

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#come #grinch #maybe #store #thought

In early church polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own Scriptures because they have failed to accept Christ as the Messiah. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#because #christ #church #deemed #early

In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity. ↗

— Jack Schwartz

#ages #beyond #christianity #conversion #court

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking. ↗

— Kyra Sedgwick

#christmas #christmas eve #down #eve #got

Sir, there is no Christian nation, thus free to choose as we are, which would establish slavery. ↗

— William H. Seward

#christian #christian nation #establish #free #nation

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#christian #communist #i #i am #me

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #desire #even #hindus

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. ↗

— Hu Shih

#chinese #christian #convince #could #culture