“Some people when they see cheese, chocolate or cake they don’t think of calories.”

“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 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?”

“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.”

“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.”