Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~~~Calvin Coolidge~~~
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
~~~Eric Sevareid~~
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
~~~Andy Rooney~~~
Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
~~~Joan Mills~~~
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~~~Garrison Keillor~~~
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
~~Bob Hope~~~
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
~~~W. T. Ellis~~~
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
~~~Joan Winmill Brown~~~
I have always thought of Christmas time as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
Christmas reminds us we are not alone. We are not unrelated atoms, bouncing and ricocheting amid aliens, but are a part of something, which holds and sustains us. As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same. Christmas shows us the ties that bind us together, threads of love and caring, woven in the simplest and strongest way within the family.
~~~Washington Irving~~~
Christmas is a time when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
~~~Bart Simpson~~~
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~~~Helen Lowrie Marshall~~~
The only blind person at Christmas time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
~~~Helen Keller~~~
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
~~~Charles Schulz~~~
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
~~~W.J. Cameron~~~
Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
~~~Larry Wilde~~~
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~~~Marjorie Holmes~~~
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
~~~Francis C. Farley~~~
Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.
~~~Terri Guillemets~~~
Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
~~~Norman Wesley~~~
In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall.
~~~Dave Barry~~~
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all. But softly gives itself away.
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At Christmas play and make good cheer. For Christmas comes but once a year.
~~~Thomas Tusser~~~
To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. ~~~E.B. White~~~
It is the Christmas time: And up and down 'twixt heaven and earth. In glorious grief and solemn mirth. The shining angels climb.
~~~Dinah Maria Mulock~~~
Great little One! whose all-embracing birth. Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
~~~Richard Crashaw~~~
At Christmas. A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime.
~~~Edgar Guest~~~
The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.
~~~Samuel Johnson~~~
It is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveler for the oasis. ~~~D.D. Monroe~~~
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
~~~Joan Winmill Brown~~~
Be merry all, be merry all. With holly dress the festive hall; Prepare the song, the feast, the ball. To welcome merry Christmas.
~~~William Robert Spencer~~~
I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet, The words repeat, Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~~~
I love the Christmas-tide, and yet, I notice this, each year I live; I always like the gifts I get, But how I love the gifts I give!
~~~Carolyn Wells~~~
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.
~~~P.J. O'Rourke~~~
Except the Christ be born again tonight. In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame. The world will never see his kingdom bright.
~~~Vachel Lindsay~~~
When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.
~~~Ella Wheeler Wilcox~~~
At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land. And none are left to grieve alone. For Love is heaven and claims its own.
~~~Margaret Elizabeth Sangster~~~
I hear that in many places something has happened to Christmas; that it is changing from a time of merriment and carefree gaiety to a holiday which is filled with tedium; that many people dread the day and the obligation to give Christmas presents is a nightmare to weary, bored souls; that the children of enlightened parents no longer believe in Santa Claus; that all in all, the effort to be happy and have pleasure makes many honest hearts grow dark with despair instead of beaming with good will and cheerfulness.
~~~Julia Peterkin~~~
Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.
~~~Dave Barry~~~
O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
~~~Guy Wetmore Carryl~~~
It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is the essential spirit of Christianity, as the month of June with sunshine and the balmy breath of roses.
~~~George William Curtis~~~
'Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, - not even a mouse: The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there.
~~~Clement Clarke Moore~~~
A scientist said, making a plea for exchange scholarships between nations, "The very best way to send an idea is to wrap it up in a person." That was what happened at Christmas. The idea of divine love was wrapped up in a Person.
~~~Halford E. Luccock~~~
Ask your children two questions this Christmas. First: "What do you want to give to others for Christmas?" Second: "What do you want for Christmas?" The first fosters generosity of heart and an outward focus. The second can breed selfishness if not tempered by the first.
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December's bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
~~~Donald E. Westlake~~~
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~~~Mary Ellen Chase~~~
Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both. ~~~Phillips Brooks~~~
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart. filled it, too, with a melody that would last forever.
~~~Bess Streeter Aldrich~~~
Christmas is a time when everybody wants his past forgotten and his present remembered. What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
~~~Phyllis Diller~~~
Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away, like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
~~~Norman Wesley Brooks~~~
Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
~~~Calvin Coolidge~~~
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~~~Washington Irving~~~
Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - -a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
~~~Augusta E. Rundel~~~
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another. The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
~~~Emily Matthews~~~
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.
~~~Taylor Caldwell~~~
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~~~Harlan Miller~~~
It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
~~~Marjorie Holmes~~~
Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.
~~~Lenora Mattingly Weber~~~
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~~~Roy L. Smith~~~
One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.
~~~Andy Rooney~~~
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveler, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~~~Peg Bracken~~~
Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times. ~Kate L. Bosher
For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
~~~W.J. Ronald Tucker~~~
Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
Remember, This December, That love weighs more than gold!
~~~Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon~~~
From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.
~~~Katharine Whitehorn~~~
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
~~Taylor Caldwell~~~
I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.
~~~May Sarton~~~
I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
~~~E.M. Forster~~~
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~~~Bob Hope~~~
May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace, The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~~~Agnes M. Pahro~~~
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.
~~~Robert Lynd~~~
No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.
~~~Robert Kirby~~~
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
~~~Kin Hubbard~~~
Three phrases that sum up Christmas are: Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men, and Batteries not Included.
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
~~~P.J. O'Rourke~~~
The universal joy of Christmas is certainly wonderful. We ring the bells when princes are born, or toll a mournful dirge when great men pass away. Nations have their red-letter days, their carnivals and festivals, but once in the year and only once, the whole world stands still to celebrate the advent of a life.
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
~~~Bess Streeter Aldrich~~~
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
~~~Dr Seuss~~~
Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.
~~~Augusta E. Rundel~~~
And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings of great joy, Which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger."
~~~Luke 2:10-12~~~
Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death - and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can keep Christmas.
~~~Henry Van Dyke~~~
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves.
~~~Eric Sevareid~~~
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
~~~Dale Evans Rogers~~~
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given - -when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.
~~~Joan Winmill Brown~~~~
Good news from heaven the angels bring,Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given, To crown us with the joy of heaven.
~~~Martin Luther~~~
I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
~~~Longfellow~~~
Heap on the wood! - the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
~~~Sir Walter Scott~~~
Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
~~~Francis C. Farley~~~
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
~~~George Matthew Adams~~~
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
~~~Dave Barry~~~
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."
~~~Thomas Tusser~~~
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."
~~~Margaret Thatcher~~~
Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion."
~~~Ralph Sockman~~~
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."
~~~Eric Sevareid~~~
Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."
~~~Augusta E. Rundell~~~
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature."
~~~Andy Rooney~~~
I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world."
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."
~~~Agnes M. Pahro~~~
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."
~~~Garry Moore~~~
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month."
~~~Harlan Miller~~~
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~~~Hamilton Wright Mabie~~~
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
~~~W. C. Jones~~~
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
~~~Washington Irving~~~
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness."
~~~Bob Hope~~~
It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart."
~~Marjorie Holmes~~~
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~~~Marjorie Holmes~~~
My first copies of Treasure Island and Huckleberry Finn still have some blue-spruce needles scattered in the pages. They smell of Christmas still."
~~~Charlton Heston~~~
Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
~~~Lenore Hershey~~~
Christmas, my child, is love in action."
~~~Dale Evans~~~
It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit."
~~~Isabel Currier~~~
Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man."
~~~Margaret Cousins~~~
"To the American People: Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. If we think on these things, there will be born in us a Savior and over us will shine a star sending its gleam of hope to the world."
~~~Calvin Coolidge~~~
Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under a tree."
~~~Charlotte Carpenter~~~
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
~~~Taylor Caldwell~~~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
~~~Phillips Brooks~~~
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
~~~Peg Bracken~~~
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child."
~~~Erma Bombeck~~~
Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect."
~~~Oren Arnold~~~
Are you willing to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you, to remember the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old ... Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world ... stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death... Then you can keep Christmas! But you can never keep it alone.
~~~Henry van Dyke~~~
So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.
~~~Harry Reasoner~~~
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all,But softly gives itself away.
~~Eva Logue~~~
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~~~Roy L. Smith~~~
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~~~Burton Hillis~~~
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
~~~Dale Evans~~~
It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
~~~Henry Van Dyke~~~
From home to home, and heart to heart, from one place to another
The warmth and joy of Christmas, brings us closer to each other.
~~Emily Matthews~~~
Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
~~~Carol Nelson~~~
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~~~Burton Hillis~~~
There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.
~~~W.J. Cameron~~~
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~~~Washington Irving~~~
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
~~~W.T. Ellis~~~
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! ~~~Hamilton Wright Mabie~~~
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifChristmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~~~G.K. Chesterton~~~
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
~~~Alexander Smith~~~
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
~~~Janice Maeditere~~~
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies.
~~~Alfred Noyes~~~
For the spirit of Christmas fulfills the greatest hunger of mankind.
~~~Loring A. Schuler~~~
Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
~~~Leigh Hunt~~~
The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!
~~~Charles N. Barnard~~~
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
~~~Eric Sevareid~~~
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.
~~~Andy Rooney~~~
The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
~~Pope John XXIII~~~
Roses are reddish, Violets are bluish, If it weren't for Christmas, We'd all be Jewish.
~~~Benny Hill~~~
May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.
~~~Ada V. Hendricks~~~
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
~~~Deborah Whipp~~~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care,But at Christmas it always is young....
~~~Phillips Brooks~~~
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~~~Kin Hubbard~~~
Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.
~~~Jessica Archmint~~~~
Wouldn't life be worth the living, Wouldn't dreams be coming true, If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through?
We ring the bells and we raise the strain. We hang up garlands everywhere. And bid the tapers twinkle fair, And feast and frolic - and then we go, Back to the same old lives again.
~~~Susan Coolidge~~~
Christmas is a time to open our hearts to God and his gifts. Just like the rest of the year.
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas, Just like the ones I used to know, Where the tree tops glisten, And children listen, To hear sleigh bells in the snow...
~~~Irving Berlin~~~
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing;
Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering
Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.
~~~Grace Noll Crowell~~~
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
~~~Margaret Thatcher~~~
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
~~~Christina Rossetti~~~
Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
~~~Dennis Miller~~~
Wish you all A Merry Christmas, May the Joys of the season, Fill your heart with goodwill and cheer. May the chimes of Christmas glory. Add up more shine and spread
Smiles across the miles.
~~~Rosie Cash~~~
A Christmas candle is a lovely thing; It makes no noise at all, But softly gives itself away;While quite unselfish, it grows small.
~~~Eva K. Logue~~~
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~~~Garrison Keillor~~~
A white Christmas fills the churchyard.
~~~French Proverb~~~
At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
~~~Thomas Tusser~~~
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
~~~Helen Steiner Rice~~~
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ~~~Hamilton Wright Mabie~~~
Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience.
~~~Handel H. Brown~~~
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
~~~Charles Schulz~~~
Christmas is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
~~~Freya Stark~~~
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.
~~~Janice Maeditere~~~
Christmas is not just a time for festivity and merry making. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.
~~~J. C. Penney~~~
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
~~~Alexander Smith~~~
Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.
~~~W.J. Cameron~~~
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months. ~~~Oren Arnold~~~
For many of us, sadly, the spirit of Christmas is "hurry". And yet, eventually, the hour comes when the rushing ends and the race against the calendar mercifully comes to a close. It is only now perhaps that we truly recognize the spirit of Christmas. It is not a matter of days or weeks, but of centuries - nearly twenty of them now since that holy night in Bethlehem. Regarded in this manner, the pre-Christmas rush may do us greater service than we realize. With all its temporal confusion, it may just help us to see that by contrast, Christmas itself is eternal.
~~~Burton Hills~~~
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas. ~~~Peg Bracken~~~
It was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, "God bless us, every one!
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
Love came down at Christmas, Love all lovely, Love Divine; Love was born at Christmas; Star and angels gave the sign.
~~~Christina Rossetti~~~
Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
~~~Kin Hubbard~~~
Nothing's as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
~~~Kin Hubbard~~~
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, saying, "Where is He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him.
~~~Matthew 2:1-2~~~
One of the nice things about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with a present.
Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
~~~Laura Ingalls Wilder~~~
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
~~~Helen Steiner Rice~~~
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight.
Somehow, not only for Christmas, But all the long year through, The joy that you give to others, Is the joy that comes back to you. And the more you spend in blessing, The poor and lonely and sad, The more of your heart's possessing,
Returns to you glad.
~~~John Greenleaf Whittier~~~
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~~~Burton Hillis~~~
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
~~~W. C. Jones~~~
The merry family gatherings - the old, the very young; the strangely lovely way they harmonize in carols sung. For Christmas is tradition time - traditions that recall the precious memories down the years, the sameness of them all.
~~~Helen Lowrie Marshall~~~
The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.
The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. ~~~Louisa May Alcott~~~
There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.
~~~Bill McKibben~~
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
Two things upon this changing earth can neither change nor end; the splendor of Christ's humble birth, the love of friend for friend.
Until one feels the spirit of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display - so much tinsel and decorations. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree, nor the firelight's glow. It's the warmth that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit returns again.
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~~~Agnes M. Pharo~~~
Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again. - ~~~Grace Noll Crowell~~~
You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.
~~~Robert Paul~~~
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas."
~~~Peg Bracken~~~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
~~~Phillips Brooks~~~
Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes."
~~~Joan Winmill Brown, American author and editor~~~
Christmas, in its final essence, is for grown people who have forgotten what children know. Christmas is for whoever is old enough to have denied the unquenchable spirit of man."
~~~Margaret Cousins~~~
It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit."
~~~Isabel Currier~~~
I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year."
~~~Charles Dickens~~~
Christmas, my child, is love in action."
~~~Dale Evans~~~
It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart."
~~~Marjorie Holmes~~~
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?"
~~~Bob Hope~~~
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness."
~~~Bob Hope~~~
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart."
~~~Washington Irving~~~
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas."
~~~W. C. Jones~~
Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever."
~~~Bess Streeter Aldrich~~~
I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays--let them overtake me unexpectedly--waking up some fine morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!'"
~~~Ray Stannard Baker~~~
The perfect Christmas tree? All Christmas trees are perfect!"
~~~Charles N. Barnard~~~
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
~~~Hamilton Wright Mabie~~~
Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."
~~~Joan Mills~~~
Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."
~~~Garry Moore~~~
What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace."
~~~Agnes M. Pahro~~~
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world."
~~~Norman Vincent Peale~~~
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature."
~~~Andy Rooney~~~
Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."
~~~Augusta E. Rundell~~~
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."
~~~Eric Sevareid~~~
Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store. Maybe Christmas... perhaps... means a little bit more."
~~~Dr. Seuss~~~
Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves."
~~~Eric Sevareid~~~
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."
~~~Margaret Thatcher~~~
At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year."
~~~Thomas Tusser~~~
Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts."
~~~Lenora Mattingly Weber~~~
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone."
~~~Deborah Whipp~~~
"We can never hope to capture the Christmas spirit and make it our own unless
we understand that God is so much greater than we ever thought He was.
We thought we knew all about God. The incarnation proved us wrong."
~~Dan Schaeffer~~~
"I heard the bells on Christmas Day, their old, familiar carols play, and wild and
sweet the words repeat of peace on earth, goodwill to men!"
~~~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow~~~
"Christmas celebrates the awesome and amazing fact that God is grander,
wiser and more mysterious than we could have ever imagined.
~~~Dan Schaeffer~~~
"To prepare our hearts for Christmas, we must cultivate the spirit of expectancy."
~~~Handel H. Brown~~~
“The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree
when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son.”
~~~Robert Flatt~~~
"Rejoice, that the immortal God is born, so that mortal man may live in eternity."
~~~John Huss~~~
"Our God is the God of the unexpected. A few things could be more unexpected
than the King of heaven being born in a stable"
~~~Bill Crowder~~~
"Christmas is a gift of love wrapped in human flesh and tied securely with the strong promises of God.
It is more than words can tell, for it is a matter for the heart to receive, believe and understand."
“He [Jesus] was born in a barn to show what God thinks of human pride, of human ambition, of human loftiness, of human hardness…of those who turn to religion only because of what they think it can do for them… of those who always insist on having a place at the high table and are miserable when others are put before them…
of those personal jealousies and those family feuds that mar the fellowship with God.”
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