Pastoral Resources

Did you know that Christmas Day is absolutely the best day to fly? It is. No crowded airports and crowded planes. I always flew to Australia. That's what Christmas was for me - a plane journey to the next tournament.

I'm so depressed. Christmas is the worst of all. Holidays are terrible, worse than Sundays. I get melancholia.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

I think we need one recognized, respected public figure to make a tough, blunt statement on just what Reagan's record is and what he might do to the country, let alone the Republican Party before Christmas.

Whatever he does should be seen as working at the Presidency and if he goes to Colorado for Christmas, it should be for a minimum amount of time, the family tradition and family get-together aspect emphasized, and it be seen as a working vacation.

To understand this Christmas record, you have to understand our ministry.

Those worship songs on the Christmas project will air on PBS television. That's highly unusual.

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.

Dad bought me a toy drum one Christmas, and I eventually destroyed it. I wanted a real drum and he bought me a snare drum. Dad continued to buy me one drum after the other.

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.

At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year.