 The immense step from the Babe at Bethlehem to the living, reigning triumphant Lord Jesus, returning to earth for His own people - that is the glorious truth proclaimed throughout Scripture. As the bells ring out the joys of Christmas, may we also be alert for the final trumpet that will announce His return, when we shall always be with Him. Author: Alan Redpath
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It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
- Charles Dickens Author: Assorted Authors
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Christmas, The Heart |
Thanksgiving comes after Christmas.
- Peter Kreeft Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Gratitude, Thankfulness |
| Who can add to Christmas? The perfect motive is that God so loved the world. The perfect gift is that He gave His only Son. The only requirement is to believe in Him. The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
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| He robs anyone on Christmas--he deserves double the sentence. Author: Duane Chapman
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| When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? Author: G.K. Chesterton
Topics: Christmas, Children |
| It is here, in the thing that happened at the first Christmas, that the most profound unfathomable depths of the Christian revelation lie. God became man; Nothing in fiction is so fantastic as this truth of the incarnation. Author: J.I. Packer
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| The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity--hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory--because at the Father's will Jesus became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross. Author: J.I. Packer
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| If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: "God with us." We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth! Author: John MacArthur
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| There is no connection between the worship of idols and the use of Christmas trees. We should not be anxious about baseless arguments against Christmas decorations. Rather, we should be focused on the Christ of Christmas and giving all diligence to remembering the real reason for the season. Author: John MacArthur
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| You can never truly enjoy Christmas until you can look up into the Father's face and tell him you have received his Christmas gift. Author: John R. Rice
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| I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died. Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Christmas, Evangelism |
| You may be lonely, poor, and cold, neglected by the children, forgotten by your friends, yet may have the glad Christmas joy in your heart as Paul had, shut up in prison cells at Rome! Author: John R. Rice
Topics: Christmas, Joy |
| The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung. Author: Phillips Brooks
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| There were only a few shepherds at the first Bethlehem. The ox and the donkey understood more of the first Christmas than the high priests in Jerusalem. And it is the same today. Author: Thomas Merton
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| Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts, the gift of God to man - His unspeakable gift of His Son, and the gift of man to God - when we present our bodies a living sacrifice. Author: Vance Havner
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