Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bryan Sykes

There are several interesting questions such as was there one original 'father' Christmas or were there several different ones?

The 'Radio City Christmas Spectacular' will go on as scheduled.

The quiet Christmas Eve seems to suggest that consumers treated Saturday and Sunday as their rest days and that the savvy shopper is now back out shopping with a vengeance.

The question last Christmas was, if you put up a Web site will people come? And sure enough they came. ... Now we're in a post-revolutionary environment. Retailers in cyberspace are going to work very hard to differentiate themselves.

Claire Tomalin

Dickens was a part of how the whole celebration of Christmas as we know it today emerged during the 19th century.

Drake Bell

I'm totally the 'decorate early, start listening to Christmas songs super early' guy. I've just always been that way.

I don't think it's any mystery that any Christians can be some of the most judgmental people on the planet.

Ronald Reagan

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Robert H. Schuller

I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.

Bruce Wilkinson

When you teach, you need to give the students incentives by grades or by other factors. I went to the Bible to find that topic in Scripture. I was shocked that after college and graduate school I had no idea that Jesus Christ had talked so much about rewards.

T. D. Jakes

When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.

John C. Maxwell

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

This was a gutsy win. We went down five in overtime, and Chris Taft really took hold, he just took the team and put them on his shoulder and refused to lose.

We've been competitive. Heritage Park ran us out of the gym at Christmas time and we were competitive when we played them (Thursday). Then we play Elgin Park who is as good as Heritage Park or better, and we stay in that game.

George Washington

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion

Elaine Pagels

The Gospel of Judas is a real surprise. It pictures Judas ..not as the worst villain in the history of the world as he's been thought of in Christian tradition..but as the one disciple whom Jesus entrusts with secret understanding.

Anne Graham Lotz

I've had Christians treat me in a way that is so wrong and so vicious, I realized there's a difference between God's people and God.

Jim Goad

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

John Oates

The Christmas genre is a field that's been well-ploughed.

Bruce Pearl

To do special things you need to have special players and special performances. Obviously you saw one tonight from Chris Lofton.

Thomas Watson

When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight

Andre Leon Talley

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

No one is guaranteed their next moment, or their next breath; yet, humanity has a habit of thinking of its existence on the earth as eternal. Those who are rooted and grounded in Christ know that life is just a vapor.

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

Christians cannot be so joined to this world that they forget who they serve.

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

When we have fallen and need to get back up again, we are able to do it in His strength walking in His Spirit. Cling to the Spirit of Christ Jesus - He will never fail.

Christians are to love their neighbors as we love ourselves.

Christians are commanded to pray in the name of Jesus. It is not a practice reserved just for personal prayers, or prayers rendered in church.

Christians need a time and place to sanctify themselves. It's important to take the time, and early in the morning is a wonderful time to do it.

A Christian's celebration of Christmas should be a lot different from that of nonbelievers.

People tend to say Christians are always judging, but the word of God convicts Christians and urges them to obey God's commands.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.