Quotes about Celebration

It is sufficient for us that we witness their humiliation," he said. "Posterity will huzza for us."

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

Bonhoeffer's theology had always leaned toward the incarnational view that did not eschew "the world," but that saw it as God's good creation to be enjoyed and celebrated, not merely transcended.

Surely this sabbath, of all others, calls forth these feelings in a supreme degree; a frame of united love and triumph well becomes it, and holy confidence and unrestrained affection.

Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother's happiness.

The holidays are only holy if we make them so.

No wine can be regarded as unimportant, my friend, since the marriage at Cana.

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.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

That's one splendid thing about such affairs — it's so lovely to look back to them.

Then we'll go up the road and tell the good news to the others.