Quotes about Celebration

If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

Organic church life, however, is a wedding of glory and gore.

Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

To me, the best part about winning the belt is hugging my wife after.

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas.

Wherever there's laughter, there is heaven.

Now we leave our tears for mirth. Now we sing, not death, but birth.

The sun does not rise in the sky in loneliness; we are with him. The moon would be lost in isolation if we did not greet her with song. The stars dance together, and we dance with them.

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.