Faith Quotes

"The spirit of Christmas needs to superseded by the Spirit of Christ. The spirit of Christmas is annual; the Spirit of Christ is eternal. The spirit of Christmas is sentimental; the Spirit of Christ is supernatural. The spirit of Christmas is a human product; the Spirit of Christmas is a divine person. That makes all the difference in the world."

- Stuart Briscoe

"How many observe Christ’s birthday! How few, His precepts! O! ’tis easier to keep holidays than commandments."

- Benjamin Franklin

"The very purpose of Christ’s coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas."

- Billy Graham

"Christmas is not a myth, not a tradition, not a dream. It is a glorious reality."

- Billy Graham

"If we could condense all the truths of Christmas into only three words, these would be the words: “God with us.” We tend to focus our attention at Christmas on the infancy of Christ. The greater truth of the holiday is His deity. More astonishing than a baby in the manger is the truth that this promised baby is the omnipotent Creator of the heavens and the earth!"

- John MacArthur

"Christmas celebrates the awesome and amazing fact that God is grander, wiser and more mysterious than we could have ever imagined."

- Dan Schaeffer

"Christ was born in the first century, yet He belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries."

- George W. Truett

"The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time."

- Pope Benedict XVI

"God sent a star to light the night for The Way, The Truth, The Life—His Son. He sent the Light of Life to prove His heart so we would invite His Son into our own. God has given us all the light we’ll ever need to find peace on earth, goodwill to men."

- Pamela F. Dowd

"Blessed is The season which Engages the whole World in a Conspiracy of love."

- Hamilton Wright Mabie

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you."

- Steve Maraboli

"There is no better time than now, this very Christmas season, for all of us to rededicate ourselves to the principles taught by Jesus the Christ. It is the time to love the Lord, our God, with all our heart—and our neighbors as ourselves."

- Thomas S. Monson

"Nor is it the spirit of those Christians—alas, they are many—whose ambition in life seems limited to building a nice middle-class Christian home, and making nice middle-class Christian friends, and bringing up their children in nice middle-class Christian ways, and who leave the sub-middle-class sections of the community, Christian and non-Christian, to get on by themselves. The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor—spending and being spent—to enrich their fellow men, giving time, trouble, care, and concern to do good to others—and not just their own friends—in whatever way there seems need."

- J.I. Packer

"Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog."

- Philip Yancey

"There has been only one Christmas—the rest are anniversaries."

- W.J. Cameron

"Mankind is a great, an immense family… This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas."

- Pope John Paul XXIII

"Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever."

- Joel Osteen

"God never gives someone a gift they are not capable of receiving."

- Pope Francis

"When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes."

- Frank Laubach

"God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. You were never not coming here."

- Sufi poem

"Remember that when you truly want something, the entire Universe conspires to make it happen."

- The Alchemist

"Act, & God will act."

- Joan of Arc

"When you let go of the need for any and all outcomes life becomes a creative magical adventure."

- Deepak Chopra

"Whatever is… is best."

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. The gift of language combined with the gift of song was given to man that he should proclaim the Word of God through music."

- Martin Luther

"Worship is the proper response of all moral, sentient beings to God, ascribing all honor and worth to their Creator-God precisely because he is worthy, delightfully so."

- D.A. Carson

"Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened."

- Andrew Carnegie

"The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still."

- Billy Sunday

"No church ever has a money problem, only a faithfulness problem."

- Brian Kluth

"I have observed 100,000 families over my years of investment counseling. I always saw greater prosperity and happiness among those families who tithed than among those who didn't."

- Sir John Templeton, chairman of Templeton Funds