Presence For Christmas Quotes

#1. Whose heart doth hold the Christmas glow Hath little need of Mistletoe; Who bears a smiling grace of mien Need waste no time on wreaths of green; Whose lips have words of comfort spread Needs not the holly-berries red - His very presence scatters wide The spirit of the Christmastide.

John Kendrick Bangs

#2. The only bright spot in the entire evening was the presence of Kevin "Tubby" Matchwell, the eleven-year-old porker who tackled the role of Santa with a beguiling authenticity. The false beard tended to muffle his speech, but they could hear his chafing thighs all the way to the North Pole.

David Sedaris

#3. There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.

Albert Einstein

#4. After the probe does its thing, the Jarada make contact: they want to talk to the Captain, and are offended that they can't immediately speak to the person in charge, which would explain why the Jarada destroyed every planet in the Dell Technical Support system.

Wil Wheaton

#5. This holiday season I learned the vue if presence over presents.

JohnA Passaro

#6. Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God
and the love of our fellow men
should prevail over all hatred and bitterness,
a time when our thoughts
and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.

George McDougall

#7. The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

Bill Vaughan

#8. Faith operates on a higher plain than reason.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Heredity is nothing but stored environment.

Luther Burbank

#10. The magic of Christmas is not in the presents, but in His presence.

Unknown

#11. I had betrayed my daughter, my son, my husband and now my people. I was hollow and empty, nothing more than a shadow. But shadows have the power to kill. And in that shadow, I became the Raven Queen.

R.J. Madigan

#12. You may win your heart's desire, but in the end you're cheated of it by death.

Jorge Luis Borges

#13. I heard when I talk, they all listen,
They hang on every word from the God, they all Christians.
I baptize 'em with lines, this is y'all christenin'
Bless with the gift of my presence, this y'all's Christmas.

Torae

#14. It's not about presents but it is about your presence. Therein lies the spirit of the holiday season.

Julieanne O'Connor

#15. All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

David Jeremiah

#16. Mary knew God loved her. From the moment Gabriel appeared to her, Mary has a distinct sense that God's presence was with her and His hand upon her. She didn't understand everything that was happening, but she was certain that God would be with her through it all.

Stormie O'martian

#17. England was never my home. I had a home there but Dublin is my home so leaving Ireland was the hardest thing I had to do.

Kevin Kilbane

#18. It looks to me as if Darwinians are like someone who, having observed that tugboats sometimes maneuver ocean liners in tight places by directing high-pressure streams of water at them, concludes that he has discovered the method by which the liners cross the Atlantic.

Peter Van Inwagen

#19. My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don't think I will ever be anything other than that.

Hayley Atwell

#20. Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

John Piper

#21. But if there were some version of luminol, the stuff they use to find blood at crime scenes, to detect the presence of grief, half the people we pass on the street would light up like Christmas trees. I

Darcey Bell

#22. Lord Jesus, master of both the light and the darkness, send your Holy Spirit upon our preparations for Christmas. We whose hearts are heavy seek the joy of your presence. We are your people, walking in darkness, yet seeking the light. To you we say, 'Come Lord Jesus!'

Henri Nouwen

#23. In an Empire where rats ruled, he was the king of the rats.

Agatha Christie

#24. The appeal was so often the same: Make me comfortable so I can go on doing whatever I want to do. They wanted sin without consequences.

Francine Rivers