#christ

Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#belief #believe #christmas #father #household

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#christian #especially #hand #man #other

In other words to live Eternal Life in the full and final sense is to be with God as Christ is with him, and with each other as Christ is with us. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#faith #faith

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident. ↗

— Mary Baker Eddy

#becomes #christianity #god #invariable #law

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. ↗

— John Edwards

#christopher #christopher reeve #country #get #john

It's a curious thing in American life that the most abject nonsense will be excused if the utterer can claim the sanction of religion. A country which forbids an established church by law is prey to any denomination. The best that can be said is that this is pluralism of a kind. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#christianity #jerry-falwell #jesse-jackson #pluralism #religion

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything. ↗

— George Eliot

#christ #doing #faith #jesus #look

Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree. ↗

— T. S. Eliot

#alarm #arm #between #boldly #brilliance

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process, the dirt of it, the tears of it, the frustration of it, Christmas, Easter, birthdays, growth charts, pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#birthdays #charts #christmas #dirt #easter

I'm a practicing Christian - and I'm going to keep practicing till I get it right - but I don't feel everyone has to practice the same religion that I do. You have a right to worship who you choose and how you choose to. ↗

— Jane Elliot

#christian #everyone #feel #get #going