“The true Christmas spirit is putting others’ happiness before our own, and finding you’ve never known such happiness.”

“I do love the beginning of the summer hols,’ said Julian. They always seem to stretch out ahead for ages and ages.”They go so nice and slowly at first,’ said Anne, his little sister. ‘Then they start to gallop.”

“The rabbit of Easter. He bring of the chocolate.”

“I never did mind my birthday. Adding up the years made me fearless the true killer of my life was always Valentines Day.”

“Why was God born in a borrowed barn to two impoverished teenagers in a town far off the pages of commerce and industry? Because true greatness will always shed the mantel of privilege in order to meet us in the muck of our lives.”

“I don’t know what’s worse; being afraid to live or being afraid to die. Yet, the thing about Christmas is that it eliminates both.”

“The genius in Christmas is that it changes the trajectory of everything through a baby who was born into nothing. And if we have any shred of genius in us at all, it will be evidenced by our willingness to embrace that ‘everything’ out of our ‘nothing.”

“I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because God did something for all of mankind that I’m too selfish to do even for myself. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?”

“What I need is not that which I find, for what I need is far bigger than my ability to find it. What I need is that which finds me. Hence, Christmas.”

“I suppose that Christmas seems vexingly improbable in my mind because that’s not anything that I would do. But isn’t that the exact reason why we need Christmas?”

“We all have a dream for what this life could be like. Christmas is God handing us everything that we need to make that dream a reality. The issue is, are we willing to take up ‘everything’ or let our dreams fall to ‘nothing.”

“If Christmas is not everything that it says it is, neither is anything else.”

“The reason some of us struggle with Christmas is that it refuses to give us what we ‘want’ because it recognizes that doing so sacrifices that which we ‘need.’ And we can be confidently assured that Christmas will never stoop to such an atrocity as this.”

“Christmas is God’s way of saying that we’re great, just not in the arrogant way that we think we are.”

“Paradise is not something that we create. Rather, it is something that we find.”