Tag: thought for today

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

—Abraham Lincoln

HT: Latin Times

You know how I always dread the whole year? Well, this time I’m only going to dread one day at a time.

—Charlie Brown

HT: Huffington Post

The entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others.

—John Andrew Holmes

HT: Execupundit

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

—H. Norman Schwarzkopf

HT: Execupundit

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

—Winston Churchill

HT: Execupundit

The darker the night the bolder the lion.

—Theodore Roosevelt

HT: Execupundit

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

—Scrooge in Dickens’s A Christmas Carol

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

Merry Christmas!

HT: Hope Triumphant

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become the sons of God.

—C.S. Lewis

HT: Thoughts About God

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays–let them overtake me unexpectedly–waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: “Why this is Christmas Day!”

—Ray Stannard Baker

HT: All Things Christmas