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Stephen Leacock

"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."

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"Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so."

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"The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."

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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult and left untried."

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"Christmas makes everything twice as sad."

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"The word "Christianity" is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross."

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"Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion - it is a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."

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"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."

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"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."

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"For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd."

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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."

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Amber Hurdle

"When I became a Christian my confidence grew."

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