Christmas Scriptures Quotes & Sayings

Or a ghost is a knot in the otherwise smooth flow of time, an electrical storm in a jewelry box, grief perfectly aligned. And sometimes a ghost is a shared thing; sometimes the entire population of a city or country will just happen to look in the mirror at the same time, and from then on there was a city in the sky, as all cities are if we consider that the sky reaches to the ground, and this city, too, thought it was alive, and the candles walked off by themselves. — Cole Swensen

The glorious chariots of kings wear out, and the body wears out and grows old; but the virtue of the good never grows old. — Gautama Buddha

My little sister told me about the Twilight books and what a big fan she was. She said, "It's like Harry Potter in love," which it's not. So, when the audition came up, I wanted to get the film for her. It was great because I got to take her to the premiere. She got all dolled up and was treated like a princess for the day. — Tinsel Korey

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. — James Joyce

I'm very comfortable being right," she admitted.

"We all are. But sometimes it's a lonely place. — Susan Mallery

I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love. — Olivia De Havilland

While all the future, for thy purer soul,
With "sober certainties" of love is blest. — William Wordsworth

The work all comes from a psychological need. See the images that I make ... It's really a psychological need. I'm just jerked around by it. I'm pulled by it. — Larry Clark

I will teach you the Truth and the Path leading to the Truth. — Gautama Buddha

I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end. — Charles G. Dawes

By god the Buddhist means that from which the universe was born, the unborn of the Buddhist scriptures, and by soul that factor in the thing called man which moves towards enlightenment. Why need more be said of it, at any rate those who are not content with scholarship, but strive to attain that same enlightenment? — Christmas Humphreys

By-passing all scriptures and all that any teacher has to say, we shall, while respecting every finger that points to the moon, be mindful only of the moon. This habit will make it easier to understand the truth that every statement is wrong, whenever made by any man, for it was made in duality and is therefore one-sided, incomplete, and in the final synthesis its opposite is just as true! — Christmas Humphreys

Examine what you tolerate. What you put up with you end up with. What you allow continues. Reevaluate the costs and your worth. — Karen Salmansohn

In the end the most important thing to me is that I've raised three kids. I know that'll be the most important accomplishment of my life and it is the most easily obtainable, because all you have to do is pay attention. It is hard work and most people don't realize that's the real gift they are getting in terms of goals and success and accomplishments. — George Lucas

I breathe you. I live you. I love you — Jessica Shirvington

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping. — James Howell

We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. — J.R.R. Tolkien

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. — Andre Maurois

We go from Malachi to Matthew in one page of our scriptures, but that one piece of paper that separates the Old Testament from the New Testament represents 400 years of history - 400 years where there wasn't a prophet, 400 years where God's voice wasn't heard. And that silence was broken with the cry of a baby on Christmas night. — Louie Giglio

I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas. — Franklin D. Roosevelt