And in despair I bowed my head;”There is no peace on earth,” I said;”For hate is strong,And mocks the songOf peace on earth, good-will to men!”Then pealed the bells more loud and deep:”God is not...

Paying twenty-five dollars for me was your mistake, ma’am. I’m not worth more than fifteen.

With more time spent in their mother’s presence, Maggie kept topics of conversation to small stuff, seldom ever wanted to dig below the surface, learned from her mother: just be polite, which makes Callie’s own...

At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving and serving the others with God’s own love and concern.

We didn’t see anyone that day. We had no expectations. Everything was spontaneous. There wasn’t a single moment of stress. We laughed like crazy all afternoon – though I couldn’t tell you what about. And...

It ought to have gangsters, and aeroplanes and a lot of automatic pistols.

It was a pretty sight, and a seasonable one, that met their eyes when they flung the door open. In the fore-court, lit by the dim rays of a horn lantern, some eight or ten...

Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God’s presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn’t understand everything that was happening,...

It’s Not About You, Mr. Santa Claus

At Willard Bay they have Christmas lights throughout the park and people circle through. More visitors means more money. We need destination visitors, we probably aren’t going to get much more out of the locals,...

One of the hardest things you will ever have to go through is the death of a child. The second hardest thing you will ever have to go through is having a child die at...

I pat the brand new twenty-seven inch Macintosh computers Mr. Foley brought us. ‘These boxes alone should make both of us scream like it’s Christmas morning! Snap out of it. Santa came! Now we get...

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of...

Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!...

The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That’s the only way to keep the roads clear.

Through joy, the Soul confirms your ability to remain victorious – even in the midst of defeat.

Let the life of one so dear be celebrated and embraced – with each passing day.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it’s tough to accomplish anything else.

There was virtually no control at the border. They would go back for birthdays, for Christmas, for holidays, because they could always come back across the border easily.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!To fold a world in the embrace of God!

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall

Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.

Christmas is best pondered, not with logic, but with imagination.

Christmas Eve, I give him packages which I open for him, since the bows and paper represent more labor than he could manage: music videos by the Nashville singers he thinks particularly sexy, fleece-lined slippers...

Christmas is a whisper of peace and a sigh of hope on the lips of love.

My team picked up one point out of 12 over Christmas and were a bit low on confidence – maybe but we deserved it.

Christmas has a dark side. It’s painful for those of us who lost loved ones during the holidays. What puts it back into sparkling perspective is knowing that Christ was born so that we might...

I know what I really want for Christmas.I want my childhood back.Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it...

And when we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains...

So now we pause. Still. Ponder. Hush. Wait. Each day of Advent, He gives you the gift of time, so you have time to be still and wait. Wait for the coming of the God...

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

There is at Christmas time a great deal of hypocrisy, honourable hypocrisy, hypocrisy undertaken pour le bon motif, c’est entendu, but nevertheless hypocrisy!

Christmas is a clandestinely ingenious script that outlines a plan to reclaim mankind through a strategy unimagined and unimaginable. This strategy involved God writing His own death into the script.

Advent creates people, new people.

Malls were packed on Christmas Eve. It will go down as one of the biggest days before Christmas on record. Also, the fact that Christmas Eve fell on a Friday meant many people were off...

Life is short. Jingle your bells.

Your inner joy will journey alongside you – supported within the company of your Soul.

It delivered very strong growth in what is truly a highly unforgiving, competitive, cruel market at this Christmas period. It showed it has breadth beyond the gay community.

Merry Christmas!’ someone shouted. He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand. ‘Merry Christmas!”Merry Christmas!”C-cookies for ever’body!’ Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth,...

Christmases are never the same. They change from year to year, and they are never really perfect, no matter how hard we try to force them to be so. What is perfect is the miracle...

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...

first girl babies” were thrust upon a family already surfeited with that unnecessary article.

A magic came out of your smileGold thread of gold threadStars illuminating the skyThereWhere in the mountain streamHealing waterTears of ice as a gift to me

If you prayed for a white Christmas, you should have been more specific.

…freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin – inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night…

When I first started playing, I was like a kid on Christmas morning. You see all this stuff to try. But you’ve got to be careful and not overindulge. For some people, it’s a disease....

A Christmas gambol oft could cheerThe poor man’s heart through half the year.

The month of December isn’t magical because it sparkles. It’s magical because it changes people’s hearts … at least momentarily.