"It takes two years to learn to speak and sixty to learn to keep quiet."
- Ernest Hemingway
Quotes
Our collection of inspiring quotes.
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"When we give each other Christmas gifts in His name, let us remember that He has given us the sun and the moon and the stars, and the earth with its forests and mountains and oceans - and all that lives and move upon them."
- Sigrid Undset
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Sometimes the best Christmas present is remembering what you've already got.
- Cathy Guisewite
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"Now you would think that if God so rules the world as to use an empire-wide census to bring Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem, he surely could have seen to it that a room was available in the inn.
"Yes, he could have. And Jesus could have been born into a wealthy family. He could have turned stone into bread in the wilderness. He could have called 10,000 angels to his aid in Gethsemane. He could have come down from the cross and saved himself. The question is not what God could do, but what He willed to do."
- John Piper, Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
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"If you can only make Christmas exciting with material things, how will the children get a thirst for God? Bend the efforts of your imagination to make the wonder of the King's arrival visible for the children."
- John Piper, Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
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"Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see."
- The Polar Express
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"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"
- Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"One kind word can warm three winter months."