Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Always winter but never Christmas.

C. S. Lewis

There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system.

C. S. Lewis

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

C. S. Lewis

Post-Christian man is not the same as Pre-Christian man. He is as far removed as virgin is from widow: there is nothing in common except want of a spouse: but there is a great difference between a spouse-to-be and a spouse lost.

We want everyone to understand that this effort didn't end at Christmas. Our troops need to know someone's thinking about them.

The point of interest has shifted to the price of the product as a game machine and the volumes that Sony can offer during the Christmas shopping season.

Cathy Guisewite

Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.

Catherynne M. Valente

Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

Carl Jung

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

Carl Jung

When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum : God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God.

Carl Jung

The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human thought to independence, and has lost its significance, therefore, to a yet undetermined extent.... It seems to me that we might still make use in some way of its form of thought, and especially of its great wisdom of life, which for two thousand years has proven to be particularly efficacious.

Carl Jung

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

Calvin Trillin

One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

Calvin Coolidge

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

We're still eating the turkeys we got at Christmas.

We're seeing all kinds of boxes, cardboard, bags, wrapping paper and packaging materials, and soon we'll see an increase in yard waste when people start taking their Christmas trees down. We have an influx of garbage every Christmas. Our truck drivers are hauling the containers as fast as they can.

We've got Dove-nominated bands. It's the Christian music industry's equivalent of the Grammys.

Billy Sunday

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

Billy Sunday

If you have no joy in your religion, there's a leak in your Christianity somewhere.

Billy Sunday

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.

What we're really looking for is a Christmas miracle. And that's what we're trusting is going to happen.

When we found out that he got hurt, we knew it would be about 6-8 weeks at the minimum, which put us right around Christmas time. He was working 1-1½ hours a day, working out trying to get the shoulder better.

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.

Mats Sundin

At times, we kind of dipped (team conditioning) after Christmas, so this should help us as players so that we don't have to struggle with something like that in the future.

The kids played hard coming off Christmas break. Mitch Frei did a great job leading the team.

Thomas S. Monson

Finding the real joy of Christmas comes not in the hurrying and the scurrying to get more done, nor is it found in the purchasing of gifts. We find real joy when we make the Savior the focus of the season.

The message received was 'In the interest of the safety of my crew, I have decided to sail to Christmas Island and disembark the survivors.

This is like Christmas in the middle of September. We're 2-0 and we're healthy heading into a bye week.