Quotes

In Jesus Christ heaven meets earth and earth ascends to heaven.
Anon

Surely royalty in rags, angels in cells, is not descent compared to Deity in flesh!
H Law

Who can deny that Jesus of Nazareth, the incarnate Son of the most High God, is the eternal glory of the Jewish race.
Benjamin Disraeli

Remember, Christ was not a deified man, neither was he a humanized God. He was perfectly God and at the same time perfectly man.
C H Spurgeon

Christ took our flesh upon him that he might takes our sins upon him.
T Watson

The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
R Sockman

Jesus did not come to take sides, but to take over.
Anon

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents for a minute and look around.
Anon

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser 1524 – 1580

Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat,
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat;
If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do,
If you haven’t got a ha’penny, God bless you!

Beggar’s Rhyme

With relatives in mind....

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb, The Two Races of Men

He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.
W S Plumer

We should have much peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.
Thomas a Kempis

Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys

Bachelor: a person who never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

With Christmas shopping in mind

Advertising: The science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Stephen Leacock

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
J H Holmes

A cheerful giver does not count the cost of what he gives. His heart is set on pleasing and cheering him to whom the gift is given.
Julian of Norwich

The manager of a department store put this notice in the window: ‘If you need it, we have it.’ But in the window of a rival, a sign appeared, stating: ‘If we don’t have it, you don’t need it.’

And post-Christmas...

The second day of a New Year’s diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.
Jackie Gleason

Visitor: And what will you do, little girl, when you get as big as your mother?
Little girl: Diet!

Depression: a period when you can’t spend money you don’t have

Bargain: it’s easy to tell when you’ve got a bargain: it doesn’t fit.

Bagpipes: the link that’s missing between music and noise.

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