Quotes About Belief

You can mess with a lot of things, but you can't mess with kids on Christmas.

Celebrating Christmas without Christ is like celebrating George Washington's birthday without mentioning the first president.

Christmas always sucked when I was a kid because I believed in Santa Claus. Unfortunately, so did my parents. So I never got anything.

Not everyone who sells Christmas trees believes in Santa Claus.

Miracles happen on Christmas, Pat. Everybody knows that.

I remember being banned from other houses as a younger child during the winter holiday season; I was the only one who didn't believe in Santa Claus, and I was ruining everyone's Christmas.

Of course there is a Santa Claus. It's just that no single somebody could do all he has to do. So the Lord has spread the task among us all. That's why everybody is Santa Claus. I am. You are.

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

Christmas is everything that God would do, and nothing that we would imagine Him doing.

Christmas seems to say that paradise lost and longed for does not have to be paradise given up on.

•Zuzu Bailey: Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. •George Bailey: That's right, that's right. •George Bailey: Attaboy, Clarence.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person - Jesus Christ.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Violence comes from the belief that other people cause our pain and therefore deserve punishment.

Communication always makes demands. It always demands that the recipient become somebody, do something, believe something. It always appeals to motivation.

... it doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.

I believe in the healing restorative power of art and communication. And so that's probably my rule. But that doesn't apply to bedtimes. And stuff like that.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

I hold communications with saints and angels, even with satan himself.

Don't you get it?' said Max. 'You're not praying, you're just... wishing. And wishes don't come true.

Like computer viruses, successful mind viruses will tend to be hard for their victims to detect. If you are the victim of one, the chances are that you won't know it, and may even vigorously deny it.

The Christian notion of the possibility of redemption is incomprehensible to the computer.

Because I don't believe that it's really desirable to have security on a computer, I shouldn't be willing to help uphold the security regime.

I thought highly of myself growing up. I still do. There's not really much somebody can say to me to bring down my confidence or anything.