The percentages say that the day after Christmas, the market goes up. Eighty percent of the time, stocks rise.
Christianity Quotes (4349 Quotes)
The three most important entities in a child's life are - in this order - parents, the church and the school,
All those foreign players will be moaning about the amount of games they have played over Christmas. Richard is 37 and he's played four in a week. He was magnificent.
I love a live church. Sixty-two years old -- this gives me life.
We are not replacing church, we are adding really.
They are songs which can be sung in a Christian context, but they all had to mean something to me because I was often on the edge of not believing.
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
The bishops of the church have never taken responsibility for their role in the sex abuse crisis. Almost from the very beginning, they have tried to blame the crisis on homosexuality in the priesthood.
The ability we have to handle this adversity will determine the degree of success that we will have in life. To me, this is where the gospel can be the greatest of help to us. The power of the Holy Ghost is the greatest source of strength and comfort we can have in our lives. The Holy Ghost will not only help us in times of need, but will help us to gain a firm testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ, thereby preparing us for life.
Being a Christian does not guarantee us that we are going to have a trouble-free life, but we know that whatever happens to us, that God will give us the strength and courage to see it through.
I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
We respect and defend the right of the Church to address questions of values, but it is very serious to receive only one of the candidates for prime minister just ahead of the ballot.
I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, ... When I hear about leaders of charities being provided a 300,000 Bentley to drive around in, my fear is that it's the taxpayers who subsidize this charity who are really being taken for a ride.
Part of the church's opposition might have been its pagan connotations. All along, the church has been uncomfortable with what I would call folk religion. But they could do little to stop it.
Unfortunately, many times the church is that place that provides that quick and easy access to children. This imposes a six-month period of time in which you're going to get to know this person better.
The law of the land is clear that you must have a separation of church and state. Any religion should be practiced in homes or places of worship, not in public schools.
What you might think is ... couldn't you make a religious game where critics, fans and retailers would all line up and universally say 'Here's a game that has some sort of moral or educational value'. But people tend to take religion extremely personally and therefore have more opportunity to be offended. If you make, say, a Christian based game, are you going to make it a Protestant game If so, that might offend the Catholics.
The other times, we just preached at you, ... This time around, it's like you're getting christened in church. This is the full immersion version.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
He plans to finish his GED, he wants to take some college, get involved with his community and go to church.
I find in my daily walk that I need reassurance from other Christians. This is one of those groups. It just fills a need.
The week after Christmas in our business is virtually as good as the week before Christmas. In the last couple of years, the retail business between Christmas and Jan. 15 is much greater than in previous years because of the redemption of gift cards.
I have a wrapping fetish, and so I always come out the day after Christmas so I can stock up for next year.
Father, the hour is come glorify thy Son, that thy Son also may glorify thee As thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent. I have glorified thee on the earth I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.
President James E. Faust has noted that in contrast to earlier, God-fearing times' a new civil religion seems to be developing in America. He said The civil religion I refer to is a secular religion. It has no moral absolutes. It is nondenominational. It is non-theistic. It is politically focused. It is antagonistic to religion. It rejects the historic religious traditions of America. It feels strange. If this trend continues, non-belief will be more honored than belief. While all beliefs must be protected, are atheism, agnosticism, cynicism, and moral relativism to be more safeguarded and valued than Christianity, Judaism, and the tenets of Islam, which hold that there is a Supreme Being and that mortals are accountable to him If so, this would, in my opinion, place America in great moral jeopardy.
Traditionally, Christmas Day is the busiest day of the year at 7-Eleven. A majority of our customers are men, and many have come to depend on another holiday tradition -- 7-Eleven being open round the clock on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.
I think the Christian gospel is bound to be putting questions as to how we organise our society, how we make our political decisions.
The neighborhood butcher wouldn't have sold meat to you. You would be shunned at church.
My eyes are wide open to the conflicts within the Church, but I don't think you can call it schism.
Her Majesty is not the supreme head of the church.
We realized pretty soon after we started that we didn't have a church choir, we had a community choir.
This is about development of Judaism and Christianity, which do go separate ways at a certain point. But it is also about how they emerge from common roots and how they parallel their development almost in an interchangeable way through a very critical period of time.
I will admit to a pleasure and sense of hope in what I see as the basic teachings of Christ, stripped of the nonsense that has sometimes been accumulated about them and the embarrassing misunderstanding.
Much of the recent team success comes from David and Diane knowing how to deal with kids going away and shepherding kids through the Christmas period,
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all you say, you are distorting the truth.
The earlier practice of the Church had been more or less to employ in worship under the presidency of the pastor or pastors, the gifts of the congregation.
The religions are all alike, no matter what they call themselves. They have no future- certianly none for the Germans. Facism, if it likes, may come to terms with the Church. So shall I. Why not That will not prevent me from tearing up Christianity root and branch, and annihilating it in Germany.
To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law.
I played with all of their tractors, and I wanted one so bad that when I got home I told my dad about it and he promised me one for Christmas.
Most of these kids grew up in church and they've been fed and everybody's been giving to them. But just to see the smile on their face when they get to reach out to somebody else and show the love of Jesus, it's something they'll never forget.
If the Church is right, then people have some serious questions to answer,
We don't see it as a law of the Church but as a law of God,
Like 'The Nightmare Before Christmas,' writing songs for 'Corpse Bride' was a real treat. Tim's visuals make the perfect complement for the kind of stuff I love doing most. These wonderfully fun, dark, offbeat tales are the perfect platform for me to write odd, slightly twisted, obscure styles such as my favorite musical era... 1930s jazz. I only hope we get to do more in the future
I am, I think the only surviving member of the original Battle Creek church. The church was disbanded, with the exception of thirteen members, in 1870.
The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. 'Come all to church, good people' Oh, noisy bells, be dumb I hear you, I will come.
Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
The players responded magnificently. Two days after Christmas, they have given everything for the club - you cannot ask for any more than that.
He will therefore seek to establish for his country in the eyes of the world, such a character as shall make her not unworthy of the name of a Christian nation.
Christianity is the most materialistic of all religions