Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Graham

The Bible says that as Christians we don't grieve the same way people do who have no hope of eternity and of Heaven - but we still grieve.

Billy Graham

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Padgett Powell

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Padgett Powell

At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.

Bill Vaughan

It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Patricia Heaton

There's enough hard stuff going on in people's lives, and you really need that joy that laughter can bring. I don't have to put that in a Christian compartment.

Linda Evangelista

We have this expression, Christy and I. We don't wake up for less than $10,000 a day.

We have the hope that it will be before Christmas.

We were glad we got this deployment order after Christmas and got the opportunity to stay home with our families.

Time does not ease the pain. I feel that if she had been taken through natural causes, it would have been a terrible thing, but it would have been acceptable. Doing something like that, and at Christmas, is unacceptable.

Troy Christian really gave us a good match. There was a lot of pressure on Pat to deliver, and, to his credit, he stayed focused. I'm so proud of all these kids and our coaches.

You know, hearing that coming out of other people's mouths who have been up there, like Christy Martin, she's definitely proved a lot in boxing, it means a lot.

We never gave up. Four, five, six quarters, whatever it takes to get in the playoffs. Yeah, we could have tanked and been home by the Christmas tree, but these guys weren't about to do that.

Henry Fonda

I found myself facing a Christian Science Reading Room. My God! It had been eight years. There had never been any renunciation of religion on my part, but like so many people, it was a gradual fading away.

I wasn't expecting a Christmas card, but maybe a phone call.

I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.

Most Christians in the community prefer to shop at their Christian bookstore.

Me, personally, I don't know exactly what Christmas feels like.

Why would someone on Christmas night come into your yard and want to thoroughly destroy Christmas for a family, I don't understand that.

John Ortberg

'Who Is This Man?' is about the impact of Jesus on human history. Most people - including most Christians - simply have no idea of the extent to which we live in a Jesus-impacted world.

You'll see a few times during Christmas time $399 notebooks,

John Tesh

You'll hear Christians being interviewed from time-to-time, but you won't hear us pray on-air. It's a Christian guy hosting a secular show.

We hate to take them down at the end of October, before we've had our first freeze. We have to get ready to hang the Christmas lights.

Ben Wallace

We had a little more energy because we were at home. It's tough to play away from home on Christmas.

Tom Izzo

We've gotten such a good system down, my managers can get a lot of stuff done. It was unbelievable around here (Sunday) night. If you open the door in that room it was Santa's elves working on Christmas Day. They were going at it. There were sparks coming out of that room. They all take some ownership.

Chad Taylor

Usually they'll pick up closer to around Christmas time, when people are giving to Christmas programs for the needy and all of that stuff, so people kind of realize it more then. But right now it's probably one of the harder times,

With the two- and three-year-old talent that I have now, it should make things interesting around Christmas.

William Shakespeare

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

William Shakespeare

Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example?

Rosecrans Baldwin

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas. The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation.

We hope that they would be released as soon as possible because Christmas is approaching and I hope that they will be with their families by then. We hope that this regrettable story will have a happy end.

We do not doubt Miss Miers' faith in Christ ù we share it, ... We find it patronizing and hypocritical to focus on her faith in order to gain support for Miss Miers.

John Foxe

Which prophecy of Christ we see wonderfully to be verified, insomuch that the whole course of the Church to this day may seem nothing else but a verifying of the said prophecy.