#bethlehem

I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born. ↗

— Paula Cole

#born #day #feel #free #girl

Great things happen in small places. Jesus was born in Bethlehem. Jesse Jackson was born in Greenville. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#born #great #great things #happen #jackson

Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#christmas #jesus-christ #nativity #beauty

As it happened, I didn't grow up to be the kind of woman who is the heroine in a Western, and although the men I have known have had many virtues and have taken me to live in many places I have come to love, they have never been John Wayne, and they have never taken me to the bend in the river where the cottonwoods grow. Deep in that part of my heart where artificial rain forever falls, that is still the line I want to hear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#love

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant

I started working for Bethlehem Steel when I was about 16 during the summers. ↗

— Richard Serra

#bethlehem #during #i #started #steel