#christ

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#christmas #fashioned #father #five #good

Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#could #dad #english #experience #guitar

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. ↗

— Voltaire

#christian #christians #course #inspire #intolerant

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing. ↗

— Muddy Waters

#cake #christmas #eat #got #i

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers. ↗

— James D. Watson

#good #graham #graham greene #greene #heroes

Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#christian #humanist #humanitarianism #more #movement

It is easier to have faith that God will support each House of Hospitality and Farming Commune and supply our needs in the way of food and money to pay bills, than it is to keep a strong, hearty, living faith in each individual around us - to see Christ in him. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#bills #christ #commune #each #easier

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

#barbarous #christian #civilized #considering #country

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

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