Chapter Seventy Nine: Advent

Christmas is built upon a beautiful

and intentional paradox; that the birth of the

homeless should be celebrated in every home.

G.K. Chesterton

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Nothing ever seems too bad, too hard, 

or too sad when you've got a Christmas tree

in the living room.

Nora Roberts

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Some Christmas tree ornaments do more

than glitter and glow, they represent a gift of love

given a long time ago.

Tom Baker

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Santa Claus is anyone who loves another

and seeks to make them happy;

who gives himself by thought or word or deed

in every gift that he bestows.

Edwin Osgood Grover

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Probably the reason we all go haywire

at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained

and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't

quite know how to put our love into words.

Harlan Miller

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Let us have music for Christmas . . .

Sound the trumpet of joy and rebirth;

Let each of us try, with a song in our hearts,

To bring peace to men on Earth.

Mildred L. Jarrell

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Mankind is a great, an immense family.

This is proved by what we feel

in our hearts at Christmas.

Pope St John XXIII

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A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Benjamin Franklin

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God goes to those who have time to hear him --

and so on this cloudless night,

he went to simple shepherds.

Max Lucado

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God never gives someone a gift they are not

capable of receiving. If He goves us the gift of

Christmas, it is because we all have the ability

to understand and receive it.

Pope Francis

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And that, of course, is the message of Christmas.

We are never alone.

Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest,

the world seemingly indifferent . . .

Taylor Caldwell

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