#chris

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. ↗

— Marcelene Cox

#aunt #await #children #come #district

As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased. ↗

— Ralph A. Cram

#centuries #christianity #correspondingly #declined #followed

I've been happily married to Chris for almost 20 years. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

#been #chris #happily #i #married

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#christian #easy #hate #how #i

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.' ↗

— Louis C. K.

#christian #could #encountered #hear #i

Look. Isn't he beautiful?" Drew's expression softened. "Ah, Nellie. He's bald, pink, and has no teeth. What's so beautiful about that?" Nellie's laugh tinkled out like musical chimes while she covered the babe back up. ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

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

— Thomas Tusser

#cheer #comes #good #good cheer #make

Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #converted #ever #i #poor

Jude has a very different character. It is not the cradle of Christianity, or of the assembly on earth: it is its decay and its death here below. It does not keep its first estate. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#below #character #christianity #cradle #death

Nothing is more prominently brought forward in the New Testament than the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. ↗

— John Nelson Darby

#christ #coming #forward #jesus #jesus christ