Top 8 Quotes by Francis Pharcellus Church

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

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

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, 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.

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

Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Healing, Unseen, Teens

Francis Pharcellus Church (2009). “Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa”, p.16, Delacorte Press

You may tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Baby, Science, Men

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

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Heart, Virginia, Years

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

The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

Francis Pharcellus Church

Children, Real, Men

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