#christmas

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#between #consider #decisive #encounter #faith

I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance. ↗

— TobyMac

#celebration #christmas #come #dance #everyone

The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#again #become #choice #christian #christian faith

I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies. ↗

— Mo Rocca

#bell #christmas #cookies #earth #i

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

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

— John Clayton

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

I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas. ↗

— Karlie Kloss

#got #i #learning #spanish #stone

Except the Christ be born again tonight In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame, The world will never see his kingdom bright. ↗

— Vachel Lindsay

#dreams

I'm going to take the kids away over Christmas but I don't, I've written 14 musicals now, I don't want to rush into doing something just for the sake of doing it. I want to do it when I find a story. ↗

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

#christmas #doing #find #going #i

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#commercial #did #exist #invent #necessary