#christ

I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#before #christmas #clock #closing #day

No one can travel so far that he does not make some progess each day. So let us never give up. Then we shall move forward daily in the Lord's way. And let us never despair because of our limited success. Even though it is so much less than we would like, our labour is not wasted when today is better than yesterday! ↗

— John Calvin

#failure #perseverance #progess #success #religion

A good conscience is a continual Christmas. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#conscience #continual #good

I've always loved Christmas and that's not really gone away from me from being a child to now. It's always a magical time and I'm unashamed in my love for Christmas. ↗

— Martin Freeman

#away #being #child #christmas #gone

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#better #child #christmas #first #hopefully

Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization. ↗

— August Bebel

#civilization #enemy #liberty

The new pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#christ #his #knows #light #make

...then he looked at my T-shirt and saw Byron's picture on it and he quoted "She Walks in Beauty," which is like my favorite poem next to the one by Baudelaire about his girlfriend being nothing but worm food, except that Lily called that one first because Baudelaire is her fave poet and so she got the shirt with him on it, even though Byron is way more scrumptious and I would do him on sharp gravel if I had the chance. --from The Chronicles of Abby Normal ↗

— Christopher Moore

#you-suck #beauty

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#child #christmas #morning #nothing #sadder

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#christ #crucified #ever #few #hours