Christmas Quotes 2

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: Christmas Quotes 2

Christmas Quotes

Christmas will always be in the hearts of God's children everywhere as they extend a helping hand to a friend in need ... as they go about reflecting God's goodness in the little quiet and unheralded expressions of a loving heart ... as they share the light of the world with those who live in darkness . Jane Hillsmen in "Christmas"

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

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 in "Song of Years"

"At Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows."
William Shakespeare,

Wretched excess is an unfortunate human trait that turns a perfectly good idea such as Christmas into a frenzy of last-minute shopping. Jon Anderson

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject:

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

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:14 pm Post subject:

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

Remember This December,
That love weighs more than gold!
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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 in "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:17 pm Post subject:

Christmas itself may be called into question,
If carried so far it creates indigestion.
Ralph Bergengren

I'm dreaming of a white Christmas Irving Berlin

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

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
Erma Bombeck

The Christmas spirit — love — changes hearts and lives.
Pat Boone

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:19 pm Post subject:

The Christmas story is as simple as was the Man himself and His teaching. As simple as the Sermon on the Mount which still remains as the ultimate basis ... of the belief of free men of good will everywhere.
Hal Borland

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

Christmas day is a day of joy and charity.
May God make you very rich in both.
Phillips Brooks

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

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

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

And so, this Christmas season may our hearts with gladness glow, As we read the blessed story That took place so long ago.
Alpha L. Buntain

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

There has been only one Christmas — the rest are anniversaries. W.J. Cameron

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject:

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

Remember, if Christmas isn't found in your heart, you won't find it under the tree
Charlotte Carpenter

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
Guy Wetmore Carryl

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G. K. Chesterton

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:25 pm Post subject:

Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures.... Sir Winston Churchill

Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing.
Patricia Claffor in "Christmas"

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

Along the hills of Galilee the white blocks sleeping lay,
When Christ, the child of Nazareth, was born on Christmas day. Dinah Craik

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.
Richard Crashaw

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:27 pm Post subject:

God rest ye, little children; let nothing you afright,
For Jesus Christ, your Saviour, was born this happy night;

Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it "white".
Bing Crosby

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

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 isn't just a day, it's a frame of mind.
Valentine Davies in Miracle on 34th Street

God's Warrior · Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:32 pm Post subject:

Something about an old-fashioned Christmas is hard to forget. Hugh Downs

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
W.T. Ellis

How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. Benjamin Franklin

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