The Christmas Mystery Quotes

#1. The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.

Sydney J. Harris

#2. Is it him?" Dad asked. "Did he get you into trouble?"
"Not me," Shane said. "I've just got that kind of face.

Rachel Caine

#3. Sometimes Felicity is as much a mystery to me as the location of the Temple. She is spiteful and childish one minute, lively and spirited in the next; a girl kind enough to bring Ann home for Christmas and small enough to think Kartik her inferior.

Libba Bray

#4. CHRISTMAS DAY Jesus came! - and came for me. Simple words! and yet expressing Depths of holy mystery, Depths of wondrous love and blessing. Holy Spirit, make me see All His coming means for me; Take the things of Christ, I pray, Show them to my heart today.

Frances Ridley Havergal

#5. It was a gaze that held the comfort of familiarity. There was no mystery, no enigmatic depth, but unrestrained length, the length of years - the laughter of childhood games and Christmas carols of home - lining its pathways with simple, yet easily overlooked, understanding.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#6. It is not really wise to make too many assumptions when you don't yet have all the facts to do so. You may believe your conclusions are logical, while they may turn out to be totally wrong.

Sahara Sanders

#7. I was sitting in my kitchen agonizing over my Christmas grocery list when I heard the noise.

R.J. Harlick

#8. She's smart and a hard worker."
"And?"
"A little on the crazy side." Cece inhaled with resignation. "I was overjoyed when the district elected a woman, but Rebecca's half a bubble off plumb.

Carolyn Haines

#9. Realists value order above freedom: for them the latter becomes important only after the former has been established.

Robert D. Kaplan

#10. Parents, they'll screw you up every time.

Chuck Palahniuk

#11. To close a fellow human being in your heart compels more respect than attending 1000 Christmas Masses.

Ben Midland

#12. Whatever does not exist in the body can't be found in the universe, and whatever exists in the universe can be found in the body.

Mahatma Gandhi

#13. I am a public person and I have my private life. It's important for me that my private life stay private, that what I share with the people is my public personality.

Georges St-Pierre

#14. Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.

Truman Capote

#15. There must always be a secret to be unwrapped at Christmas - that's the rule

John Geddes

#16. I am not plain, but I don't think anyone is ever going to call me beautiful. I don't have that graceful thing going on.

Jojo Moyes

#17. You want soldiers who, when they get to a river after a long march, don't start rooting for their canteen in their pack, but just dive right in.

Tom Waits

#18. Merry Christmas!' someone shouted.
He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand.
'Merry Christmas!'
'Merry Christmas!'
'C-cookies for ever'body!' Sammy hollered. And looking both ways, they all fled across to the light, and the warmth, and the books, and the mystery.

Jan Karon

#19. The irony of Christmas is always upon the poor in heart; the mystery of the solstice is always upon the rest of us.

John Cheever

#20. Do you think it is better to fail at something worthwhile, or succeed at something meaningless

Tommy Wallach

#21. The mystery of the Holy Night, which historically happened two thousand years ago, must be lived as a spiritual event in the 'today' of the Liturgy," the Pope clarified. "The Word who found a dwelling in Mary's womb comes to knock on the heart of every person with singular intensity this Christmas.

Pope John Paul II

#22. I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.

Anne Hathaway

#23. My Christmas tree glimmered with lights, ornaments, and tinsel. Though such holiday trimmings weren't in vogue any longer, I loved them. I pulled every box of family decorations from the attic and glamored the tree until it looked like a "fancy woman in a cheap brothel" as my aunt Loulane would say.

Carolyn Haines

#24. He'd been trying to save this woman in his dreams for years. Now here she was, all grown up, and he still felt helpless.

B. J. Daniels

#25. It is now, at Advent, that I am given the chance to suspend all expectation ... and instead to revel in the mystery.

Jerusalem Jackson Greer

#26. There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

Terence McKenna

#27. Don't go to your grave with your best work inside of you. Choose to die empty.

Todd Henry

#28. DJ saw the change in his expression the moment before he dropped the ax, reached out with his gloved hand and, cupping her neck, drew her to him. "I believe you owe me a kiss.

B. J. Daniels

#29. The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature. If some of our great decorated trees had been grown in a remote forest area with lights that came on every evening as it grew dark, the whole world would come to look at them and marvel at the mystery of their great beauty.

Andy Rooney

#30. You're a real cowboy."
He laughed. "You're just now realizing that?

B. J. Daniels

#31. No one mentioned the sad piece of tinsel, naked in places, hanging across the chimneybreast, nor that Twelfth Night was a week ago. No one mentioned the two Christmas cards on the mantelpiece. No one mentioned them because inside they were blank.

Andrew Barrett

#32. The Great Commission to go into all the world is not only geographical, but must include every field, profession, discipline, sport, etc.

Rick Joyner