Francis Pharcellus Church Quotes About Christmas

• Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies!

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Believe, Santa

  Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.15, Delacorte Press

• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Generosity

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

• Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Santa

  "Is There a Santa Claus" (editorial), Sun (N.Y.), 21 Sept. 1897

• Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus. It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

  Francis Pharcellus Church

  Christmas, Virginia, Should Have

  "Is There a Santa Claus?". The New York Sun, September 21, 1897.

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