Quotes about Celebration

For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It's a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

I don't talk about my personal life in the press that's how I kept my wedding a secret.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,In a light fantastic round.

Look to Jesus this Christmas. Receive the reconciliation that he bought. Don't put it on the shelf unopened. And don't open it and then make it a means to all your other pleasures. Open it and enjoy the gift. Rejoice in him. Make him your pleasure. Make him your treasure.

Rejoicing without the content of Christ does not honor Christ.

It was a very costly love. A very powerful love. A very rugged, painful love. The meaning of Christmas is the celebration of this love. "God so loved . . ." And wonder of wonders, God gives this costly love to an undeserving world of sinners, like us.

Christmas means: the infinitely self-sufficient God has come not to be assisted but to be enjoyed.

Sometimes I wondered if it even mattered whether our communion cups were filled with consecrated wine or draft beer, as long as we bent over them long enough to recognize each other as kin.