2,024 Quotes About Christmas

The only thing that I fear about death is that it will occur before I’ve had the chance to really live. And it is Christmas that hands me the chance to live while it leaves death with no chance to steal any of that from me.

I believe in Christmas because God is the only Being I know Who is so utterly selfless as to do such a thing, and so incredibly ingenious as to figure out how to do it.

Christmas is God coming to the very place that we would never think to look for Him. And I think He did that because we live in the very places that the world would never think to look for us.

I don’t think that I want God to come ‘to’ me, for that suggests an encounter that I might enjoy. Rather, I think I want God to come ‘for’ me for that evidences the rescue that I need.

Christmas is opportunity while everything else in life is the hope of opportunity.

Christmas is God deciding to find people who didn’t want to be found but could not afford not to be found.

Christmas is God dreaming of something ingeniously outrageous and refusing to let the unimaginable magnitude of such a dream and the scrutiny that it is certain to endure impede the implementation of the dream. And is Christmas not God saying, ‘Go and do likewise?

Some doubt the Christmas story, placing it as a piece of fiction penned to perpetuate a myth. And could it be that the majesty of this story is so utterly vast that fiction is the only way that they could restrain it sufficiently to keep it from commandeering their lives?

If we choose to make the darkness our light we must ascribe Christmas to the genre of childish myths of the most mythical sort, for that is the only way to make it dark enough for us to tolerate it.