Christmas Poverty Quotes

#1. Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents.

Louisa May Alcott

#2. Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

Steven Holl

#3. It's a vast waste of space.

Prince Philip

#4. Spiritual formation is not about steps or stages on the way to perfection. It's about the movements from the mind to the heart through prayer in its many forms that reunite us with God, each other, and our truest selves.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#5. A love where no one gets hurt doesn't exist.

Mika Yamamori

#6. When the song is over, the mikes turned off, the lights dimmed, all the glitter and glamour shed, and I am left alone with my own thoughts, free to contemplate the paths that led me to where I am today, I pause to give thanks.

CeCe Winans

#7. It takes more to abstain than to err, more to avoid mistakes than to make mistakes; but the good thing is that it gets better with practice.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#8. At the end of the school day, we walked the long, cold way home feeling happy and hungry. There we found a warm fire, country ham with gravy and hot biscuits, and a mother to hug us! If snow blew under the doors that night, what did it matter? Christmas time was just around the corner.

Jenny Lee Ellison

#9. for you to be with anyone else would be adultery of the soul.

Kennedy Ryan

#10. the whisky muttered in his ears.

John Steinbeck

#11. Cooking is a great way to get back in touch with things that brought us comfort.

Lizabeth Scott

#12. We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change takes place in living systems, not from above but from within, from many local actions occurring simultaneously.

Grace Lee Boggs

#13. He's very fast and if he gets a yard ahead of himself nobody will catch him.

Bobby Robson

#14. I do not know whether music knows how to despair over music, or marble over marble, but literature is an art which knows how to prophesize the time in which it might have fallen silent, how to attack its own virtue, and how to fall in love with its own dissolution and court its own end.

Jorge Luis Borges

#15. Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

Harvey MacKay

#16. Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.

Miroslav Volf