Christmas Week

This is Christmas Week.  Here are ten of my favorite Christmas quotes.

• “One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas Day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” Andy Rooney
• “Dear Santa, define “good”.
• “Got all my Christmas shopping done. Now to shop for other people.”  Conan O’Brien
• “I heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old, familiar carols play, and wild and sweet, the words repeat, of peace on earth, good-will to men!” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• “At the Father’s will, Jesus Christ became poor and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross.” J.I. Packer
• “It’s not what’s under the Christmas tree that matters, it’s who’s around it.” Charles M. Schulz
• “Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.” Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• “I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.” Charles Dickens
• “Mary, did you know . . . that your baby boy is heaven’s perfect Lamb.  This sleeping child you’re holding is the great I Am.” Mark Lowry
• ^“For there is born to you this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:11.