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The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other. – John Clayton

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The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence. – John Clayton

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Between 1910 and 1950 approximately 350 lives of Jesus were published in the English language alone. – John Clayton

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Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New Testament and worship in the church? Was Jesus really raised from the dead? Is he really the divine Lord of lords? – John Clayton

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From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it. – Katharine Whitehorn

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The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. – James Irwin

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Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! – Phyllis McGinley

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