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He disciplines us for our good, that we may share his holiness.-Hebrews 12:10
If there were no hell
we would be like the animals.
No hell, no dignity.-Flannery O'Connor
If every man would sweep his own doorstep the city would soon be clean.-Welsh Proverb
Nothing shows a
man's character
more than what
he laughs at.-Goethe
A morning without coffee is like sleep.
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.-Dr. Seuss
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For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord.Luke 2:11
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
-Alexander Smith
photograph by Joel Wingo (personaphotography.com)Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
-Christina Rosetti
You have saved our lives.
We are eternally grateful.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAX!You don't take a photograph,
you make it. -Ansel AdamsToday Pax Nathanael Howard turns twelve. Thirteen years ago Kate thought we were done with the manufacturing phase of parenthood. We already had five great kids but I thought we still needed a caboose. She wanted a bigger home, so we worked out a deal, and on January first of 1994 we moved into Five Talbot Avenue. On December twentieth out came Pax!
Have yourself a merry little Christmas,
make the Yuletide gay.-Ralph Blane
The day is for honest men, the night for thieves.-Euripides
And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth.-John 1:14
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,
Just like the ones I used to know,
Where the tree tops glisten
And children listen
To hear sleigh bells in the snow.-Irving Berlin
photo by Liz TubergenTo live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.-Emily Dickinson
I never thought it was such a bad little tree. It's not bad at all, really. Maybe it just needs a little love.-A Charlie Brown Christmas
Oh for the good old days
when people would stop
Christmas shopping when
they ran out of money.
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
-Goethe
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
-Carol Nelson
And, lo, the angelof the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.-Luke 2:9
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.-Shirley Temple
I will honor Christmas in my heart,
and try to keep it all the year.Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
All over Asia parents tell their children to stop complaining and finish their trigonometry because there are millions of American kids going to bed with no math at all.
-Michael Cunningham
Aren't we forgetting the true meaning of Christmas? You know, the birth of Santa?
-Bart Simpson
To be a man is,
precisely,
to be responsible.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-James Joyce
Take holdof that which islife indeed.-1 Timothy 6:19
There is only one race,
the human race.
-Dan Aykroyd
Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
-O. Henry