Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Bertrand Russell

The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.

Bertrand Russell

It is no credit to the orthodox that they do not now believe all the absurdities that were believed 150 years ago. The gradual emasculation of the Christian doctrine has been effected in spite of the most vigorous resistance, and solely as the result of the onslaughts of freethinkers.

Bertrand Russell

It is amusing to hear the modern Christian telling you how mild and rationalistic Christianity really is and ignoring the fact that all its mildness and rationalism is due to the teaching of men who in their own day were persecuted by all orthodox Christians.

Bertrand Russell

Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.

Bertrand Russell

Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell

The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtue' on grounds that have nothing to do with their social consequences.

Bertrand Russell

There is exactly the same degree of possibility and likelihood of the existence of the Christian God as there is of the existence of the Homeric god. I cannot prove that either the Christian god or the Homeric gods do not exist, but I do not think that their existence is an alternative that is sufficiently probable to be worth serious consideration.

Charles R. Swindoll

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God.

Charles R. Swindoll

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

Charles R. Swindoll

Not every Christian finds it easy to believe.

Charles R. Swindoll

God has not only created each of us as distinct individuals, He also uses us in significant ways.

Charles R. Swindoll

More often than not, when something looks like it's the absolute end, it is really the beginning.

Charles R. Swindoll

The longer I live the more I believe that the greatest enemy of a victorious Christian life is passivity.

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

William Shakespeare

O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!

William Shakespeare

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

William Shakespeare

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit.

We haven't communicated that much since Christmas. It sounds crazy, but sometimes the less we talk, the easier it is. When John emails me his messages are short and not that personal.

The president wished them a Merry Christmas and thanked them for their service to our country.

Ryan Watson

Winning the Christmas tournament was great. That really seemed to spark us.

Jessie Mueller

'White Christmas' is one of my favorite movies, so I've always just had a love for that kind of golden era musical.

We're all in the same garden. I hope you're not eating from the wrong tree.

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.

Richard Hastings

Retailers know that many people will wait until after Christmas for the big purchases. So they don't want to go too far into the holidays with excess inventory that they eventually will heavily discount.

Richard Hastings

Retailers have very big orders from vendors ready for delivery right before and right after Christmas. They want to look really, really good. That's when they come out with the richest displays of winter merchandise, and it culminates with Valentine's Day.

Resorts generally are starting to feature Christmas, New Year's packages that include some kind of holiday entertainment.

Remember, there are still over 2 million unemployed workers and over 5 million are on part-time jobs. Christmas will be moderately better simply because last year was so bad. But unless this jobs picture improves, it's hard to say that the retail industry has finally turned the corner.

David Robertson

Remember the 'Christmas Story' movie? You can shoot your eye out?

It doesn't seem like we have the drive we had before the Christmas holiday.

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