How fortunate we are that before we enter the New Year we first pass through Bethlehem, hear the Christmas angels “their great glad tidings tell,” and lose our old fears in renewed faith.

Gates of Beauty

In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world.  (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.)  And everyone went to their own town to register.

Luke 2:1-3
The New International Version

There was a lady in the state hospital.  She carried the card that a friend of ours sent her in a little draw-string bag and during the entire Christmas season she would stop people and say, “Look at my Christmas card.  The lady I worked for sent it to me.  “I’m not forgotten.”  We heard later that card, the only one she received, was the beginning of her recovery.

Reamer Kline

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God has no birthday.  Every human being has a day he can look back to as the time of his beginning.  With God there is no beginning and no ending, so we cannot think of His birthday.  Yet, in a beautiful way, He has made it possible for us to celebrate the day when His love showed itself in human form—the birthday of Jesus.  This is the deepest meaning of Christmas.  Everything else stems from this central fact that it is the birthday of the Son of God.  “Love came down at Christmas,” wrote Christina Rossetti.  God’s love was shown in Jesus, who was born of a human mother and wrapped, like any tiny baby, in swaddling cloths and laid in a manger, because there was no room in the inn.

Pathways of Prayer

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.  This man came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all through him might believe.  He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light.  That was the true Light which gives light to every man coming into the world.

John 1:6-9
The New King James Version

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

Alexander Smith

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Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts: the gift of God to man—his Son; and the gift of man to God—when we first give ourselves to God.

Vance Havner

Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign.  Behold, a young woman shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanu-el.

Isaiah 7:14
The Revised Standard Version

The story is told of a little boy whose family was very poor.  He received no gifts at Christmastime, but he spent what time he could looking in the store windows at the pretty things other little boys could have, but he couldn’t.  One day he was run over by a car and taken to a hospital.  One of the nurses bought him a toy, a troop of soldiers.  As he touched them, what do you think he said?  “There isn’t any glass between!”  Some day we shall see Christ face to face, with no “glass” in between.

Unknown

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The function of prayer is to set God at the center of attention.

Albert Edward Day

And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith:

Philippians 3:9
The King James Version

If there’s a job to be done, I always ask the busiest men in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

Henry Ward Beecher

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How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who has none.  Eternal years lie in His heart.  For Him time does not pass, it remains; and those who are in Christ share with Him all the riches of limitless time and endless years.  God never hurries.  There are no deadlines against which He must work.  Only to know this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.  For those out of Christ, time is a devouring beast.

A. W. Tozer

How my spirit rejoices in God my Savior!

Luke 1:47
The New Living Translation

You aren’t an accident.  You weren’t mass-produced.  You aren’t an assembly-line product.  You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on this earth by the Master Craftsman.

Max Lucado

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This is a sane, wholesome, practical, working faith: first, that it is a man’s business to do the will of God; second, that God takes on himself the special care of that man; and third, that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything.

George MacDonald

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

2 Corinthians 5:21
The New King James Version

If you would master temptation, you must first let Christ master you.

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By one hour’s intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than by a day’s or a week’s converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.

John Newton

“Maintain justice and do what is right, for my salvation is close at hand and my righteousness will soon be revealed.”

Isaiah 56:1
The New International Version

One drop of Christ’s blood is worth more than heaven and earth.

Martin Luther

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We are too Christian really to enjoy sinning, and too fond of sinning really to enjoy Christianity.  Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

Peter Marshall

I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.

Psalm 32:8
The King James Version

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat than to get to heaven on good works.

Charles H. Spurgeon

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The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth.  It is obvious that man is himself a traveller; that the purpose of this world is not “to have and to hold” but “to give and to serve.”  There can be no other meaning.

Wilfred T. Grenfell

Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Jeremiah 33:3
The English Standard Version

Lord, make me more like Yourself, less like myself.

Unknown

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Century follows century—There it stands.
Empires rise and fall and are forgotten—There it stands.
Dynasty succeeds dynasty—There it stands.
Kings are crowned and uncrowned—There it stands.
Emperors decree its extermination—There it stands.
Despised and torn to pieces—There it stands.
Storms of hate swirl about it—There it stands.
Atheists rail against it—There it stands.
Agnostics smile cynically—There it stands.
Profane prayerless punsters caricature it—There it stands.
Unbelief abandons it—There it stands.
Higher critics deny its claim to inspiration—There it stands.
Thunderbolts of wrath smite it—There it stands.
An anvil that has broken a million hammers—There it stands.
The flames are kindled about it—There it stands.
The arrows of hate are discharged against it—There it stands.
Radicalism rants and raves about it—There it stands.
Fogs of sophistry conceal it temporarily—There it stands.
The tooth of time gnaws but dents it not—There it stands.
Infidels predict its abandonment—There it stands.
Modernism tries to explain it away—There it stands.
Devotees of folly denounce it—There it stands.
It is God’s highway to Paradise.
It is the light on the pathway in the darkest night.
It leads business men to integrity and uprightness.
It is the great consoler in bereavement.
It awakens men and women opiated by sin.
It answers every great question of the soul.
It solves every great problem of life.
It is a fortress often attacked but never failing.
Its wisdom is commanding and its logic convincing.
Salvation is its watchword.  Eternal life its goal.
It punctures all pretense.
It is forward-looking, outward-looking, and upward-looking.
It outlives, outlifts, outloves, outreaches, outranks, outruns all other books.
Trust it, love it, obey it, and Eternal Life is yours.

A. Z. Conrad…the Bible

Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.  And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’  This is the first commandment.  And the second, like it, is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Mark 12:29-31
The New King James Version

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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