Christmas Day From The Bible Quotes & Sayings

Jesus didn't mean this as a sweeping command for everyone who has a lot of money. Jesus meant this for any of us who wallow in whatever abundance we have. I imagine Jesus looked straight into this young man's soul and said, I want you to give up the one thing you crave more than me. Then come, follow me. — Lysa TerKeurst

The gift art gives us is that instead of seeing only our own world, we see into other times, which offers a window into other cultures and sensibilities. — Susan Vreeland

I have fun when I want to have fun, but I am learning how to balance my life out. — Carmen Electra

I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches. — Rachel Cusk

[Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next. — Lee Strobel

Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for my landlords, or my bankers, or my neighbors. They were valuable, like powerful stimulants, only when they were left out of the social and industrial routine. — Willa Cather

What is learned out of necessity is inevitably more powerful than the learning that comes easily. — Malcolm Gladwell

He too,I think,should pray to the deathless ones himself.
All men need the gods ... — Homer

Allow intelligent design into science textbooks, lecture halls, and laboratories, and the cost to the frontier of scientific discovery - the frontier that drives the economies of the future - would be incalculable. I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

On the one hand, I've had such a normal upbringing with my mum, who has kept me grounded, but on the other, the wild experiences through my dad. — Julian Lennon

When you can't wait for your ship to come in, you've got to row out to it. — Greer Garson

The trouble with most of our prayers is that we give them as if we were picking up the phone and ordering groceries - we place our order and hang up. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Historians constantly rewrite history, reinterpreting (reorganizing) the records of the past. So, too, when the brain's coherent responses become part of a memory, they are organized anew as part of the structure of consciousness. What makes them memories is that they become part of that structure and thus form part of the sense of self; my sense of self derives from a certainty that my experiences refer back to me, the individual who is having them. Hence the sense of the past, of history, of memory, is in part the creation of the self. — Israel Rosenfield

Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other. — Vijay Mallya