Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.
The two most joyous times of the year are Christmas morning and the end of school.
If you do good work, it tends to stick around. People still come up to me and say, ''The Ref' is my favorite Christmas movie. '
Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.
You can't allow the forces of political correction to shut you up. I mean, why are people afraid to say, 'Merry Christmas?' Give me a break. If people don't like it, yeah, they can go do something else.
Our relationship felt like a Christmas gift that you hadn't asked for and weren't expecting to receive, but the minute you saw it, you knew it was perfect for you.
Remember This December, That love weighs more than gold!
Santa Claus has nothing to do with it," the latke said. "Christmas and Hanukah are completely different things. " "But different things can often blend together," said the pine tree. "Let me tell you a funny story about pagan rituals.
Christmas never would have caught on if it had been called Celebrate a Little Jew's Birthday.
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.
It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.
This Advent we look to the Wise Men to teach us where to focus our attention. We set our sights on things above, where God is. We draw closer to Jesus. . . When our Advent journey ends, and we reach the place where Jesus resides in Bethlehem, may we, like the Wise Men, fall on our knees and adore him as our true and only King.
We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts may be part of ourselves-givin g of the riches of the heart and mind-and therefore more enduring and of far greater worth than presents bought at the store.
He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.
Because of some defect in my motor skill, I can never COMPLETELY wrap [gifts]. . . . If I had been an ancient Egyptian in the field of mummies, the lower half of the Pharaoh's body would be covered only by scotch tape.
Christmas my child, is love in action. . . When you love someone, you give to them, as God gives to us. The greatest gift He ever gave was the Person of His Son, sent to us in human form so that we might know what God the Father is really like! Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.
Born in a stable, Cradled in a manger, In the world His hands have made, Born a stranger.