“Here's a reminder on accepting Christmas gifts from vendors: don't.”

“And not until then did she remember how fatal it is said to be to accept a gift from a demon. Buy, or earn it, but never accept the gift.”

“Now I have been raped.
It happened twice. Once on Monday, and again yesterday. It is my Christmas gift from Christian America.”

“Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.”

“I don't really know how to thank the Academy for this. And if I try we'll be here till Christmas. So I better get on…”

“The worst gift I was given is when I got out of rehab that Christmas; a bottle of wine. It was delicious.”

“Faith then, in its relation to salvation, is that confidence by which we accept it as a free gift from the Saviour, and is the only possible way in which the gift of God could be appropriated.”

“A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation—to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”

“It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.”

“Therefore, you must accept a gift only from those whom you wish to make as your masters.”