#christ

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit ↗

— Kin Hubbard

#circus #humor #humor

Without the door let sorrow lie, And if for cold it hap to die, We'll bury 't in a Christmas pie, And evermore be merry. ↗

— George Wither

#humor #merriment #wassail #humor

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa. ↗

— Ricky Gervais

#christianity #comedy #humor #humour #rationality

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. I am not, as will be seen, in any sense attacking logic: I only say that this danger does lie in logic, not in imagination. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#orthodoxy #imagination

All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls—only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. ↗

— Corrie Ten Boom

#love #love

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor. ↗

— Beth Moore

#satan

Sorry, am I being rude?" she asks. "I'm used to saying whatever is on my mind. Mom used to say that politeness is deception in pretty packaging ↗

— Veronica Roth

#divergent #quote #deception

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#been #christian #christian world #drawn #endeavoured

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#brought #business #christian #christian home #highlight

This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. ↗

— Polly Toynbee

#christendom #civilisations #clash #indeed #islam