Quotes about Celebration

The only real blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

What about putting Christ back into Christmas? It is simply not necessary. Christ has never left Christmas.

Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.

When we keep the spirit of Christmas, we keep the spirit of Christ, for the Christmas spirit is the Christ spirit.

I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of Winter.

Joy is the true gift of Christmas.

There are 17 more shopping days until Christmas. So, guys, that means 16 more days till we start shopping, right?

The family is the key of Christmas.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

My identity in Christ is more important than my identity as an American or as a Coloradan or as a white male or as a Protestant. Church is the place where I celebrate that new identity and work it out in the midst of people who have many differences but share this one thing in common. We are charged to live out a kind of alternative society before the eyes of the watching world, a world that is increasingly moving toward tribalism and division.

Authentically Me I will accept and celebrate my uniqueness, and will esteem and encourage the distinctions I admire in others.