#christ

I've been in elementary education for years and my belief is that Christmas pageants in schools are little more than conditioning kids for the Christian religion. ↗

— Jack Bowman

#belief #christian #christian religion #christmas #conditioning

When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas. ↗

— Chris Brown

#christmas #ended #getting #i #presents

Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3) ↗

— David Bentley Hart

#christianity #eastern-orthodox #beauty

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#distinct #judeo-christian #most #religion #seeks

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#children #christmas time #filled #filling #god

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#christian #difficult #found #ideal #left

Christmas is the antithesis of Thanksgiving. Christmas is pretty much a man-made holiday. ↗

— John Clayton

#christmas #holiday #man-made #much #pretty

Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#dry #eyes #feet #good #heart

No kingdom has shed more blood than the kingdom of Christ. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#christ #kingdom #more #shed #than

It's quite a famous story that takes place on Christmas Eve, and the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace one night and they bury their dead and they play football. I play a German opera singer, in German, which I never have so I am really excited about that. ↗

— Diane Kruger

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