Christmas Quotes 2

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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

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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

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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"

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Time always seems long to the child who is waiting — for Christmas, for next summer, for becoming a grownup: long also when he surrenders his whole soul to each moment of a happy day Dag Hammarskjöld

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster — I'll be needing that to die in.
Helen Hayes

The magi, as you know, were wise men — wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
O. Henry

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

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The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
Burton Hillis

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

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• 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...
o 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

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

Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

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For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:6

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

What's going on here is a redefinition of Christmas as a time of family celebration rather than as a time of the community faithful celebrating the birth of the Savior...There is a risk that we will lose one more of our Christian rituals, one that's at the heart of our faith.
Robert Johnston

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There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present. Washington Irving

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The joy of brightening other lives, bearing 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

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
Garrison Keillor

The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
Helen Keller

The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.
D. James Kennedy in "Following the Star" from Christmas Stories for the Heart

It was the Yuletide, that men call Christmas, though they know in their hearts it is older than Bethlehem and Babylon, older than Memphis and Mankind.
H.P. Lovecraft in "The Festival"

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Call a truce, then to our labors — let us feast with friends and neighbors And be merry as the custom of our caste; For if "faint and forced the laughter," and if sadness follow after, We are richer by one mocking Christmas past
Rudyard Kipling

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.
Richard Lamm

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. Carrie Latet

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so Stephen Leacock

Late on a sleepy, star-spangled night, those angels peeled back the sky just like you would tear open a sparkling Christmas present. Then, with light and joy pouring out of Heaven like water through a broken dam, they began to shout and sing the message that baby Jesus had been born. The world had a Savior! The angels called it "Good News, " and it was. Larry Libby

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

To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others. Henry C. Link

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Off to one side sits a group of shepherds. They sit silently on the floor, perhaps perplexed, perhaps in awe, no doubt in amazement. Their night watch had been interrupted by an explosion of light from heaven and a symphony of angels. God goes to those who have time to hear him — and so on this cloudless night he went to simple shepherds. Max Lucado in "The Arrival" from Christmas Stories for the Heart

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Were it not for the shepherds, there would have been no reception. And were it not for a group of stargazers, there would have been no gifts.
Max Lucado (God Came Near)

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

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love! Hamilton Wright Mabie

May we not "spend" Christmas or "observe" Christmas, but rather "keep" it. Peter Marshall

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We should try to hold on to the Christmas spirit, not just one day a year, but all 365. Mary Martin

Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God. George F. McDougall

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. Bill McKibben

This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.
Frank McKibben

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller

Probably the reason we all go so haywire at Christmas time with the endless unrestrained and often silly buying of gifts is that we don't quite know how to put our love into words.
Harlan Miller

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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 traveller for the oasis.
D.D. Monroe

Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you're home. Carol Nelson

We hear the beating of wings over Bethlehem and a light that is not of the sun or of the stars shines in the midnight sky. Let the beauty of the story take away all narrowness, all thought of formal creeds. Let it be remembered as a story that has happened again and again, to men of many different races, that has been expressed through many religions, that has been called by many different names. Time and space and language lay no limitations upon human brotherhood.
The New York Times (25 December 1937)

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As you chose the lowly, the outcasts, and the poor to receive the greatest news the world had ever known, so may we worship you in meekness of heart. May we also remember our brothers and sisters less fortunate than ourselves in this season of giving. Amen.
Karen L. Oberst

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives. William Parks

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth, And there He lives and dies. Alfred Noyes

The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round — kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.
Harlan Miller

Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving and of families united.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

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Christmas is the time for looking ahead courageously through the gates of the swiftly approaching new year ... of resolving that the coming months will reflect a kinder, more forgiving and less heedless person than mirrored in the past. Ellen V. Morgan

Good will and joy a vital part.
It's higher thought and a greater plan.
It's glorious dream in the soul of man.
Wilfred A. Peterson in The Art of Living

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

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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

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
Helen Steiner Rice

Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day. Helen Steiner Rice

It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart. Richard Roberts

Christmas, my child, is love in action. ...

Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
Dale Evans Rogers

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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

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
William Saroyan

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

The spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind. Loring A. Schuler

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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
Charles Schulz

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man's heart through half the year.
Walter Scott

The simple shepherds heard the voice of an angel and found their Lamb; the wise men saw the light of a star and found their Wisdom. Fulton J. Sheen

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music Tom Sims

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
Alexander Smith

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. Roy L. Smith

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Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton

Christmas ... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
Gladys Tabor

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
Ruth Carter Stapleton

Christmas ... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Freya Stark

Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past. Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and reliving those of yesterday.
Gladys Tabor

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you . . . yes, it is Christmas every time you smile at your brother and offer him your hand.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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The wonderful world of Christmas is a joy from the moment it starts. The wonderful world of Christmas should remain ev'ry day in our hearts...
Charles Tobias and Al Frisch

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.
W. J. Tucker

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year.
Thomas Tusser in "The Farmer's Daily Diet" from A Hundred Points of Good Husbandry (1557)

Of course, this is the season to be jolly, but it is also a good time to be thinking about those who aren't.
Helen Valentine

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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 — 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! But you can never keep it alone.
Henry van Dyke ("Keeping Christmas" in The Spirit of Christmas)

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Gloria, Gloria! they cry, for their song embraces all that the Lord has begun this day: Glory to God in the highest of heavens! And peace to the people with whom he is pleased! And who are these people? With whom does the good Lord choose to take his pleasure? The shepherds. The plain and nameless — whose every name the Lord knows well. You. And me.
Walter Wangerin Jr. in Preparing for Jesus

So here comes Gabriel again, and what he says is "Good tidings of great joy ... for all people." ... That's why the shepherds are first: they represent all the nameless, all the working stiffs, the great wheeling population of the whole world.
Walter Wangerin Jr. in Preparing for Jesus

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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

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

I like the Christmas that fulfills my needs ... to be forgiven from greed and selfishness, to fill my empty soul with peace and compassion, for hope and faith and charity, for myself renewed and hope restored in an erring world.
Robert D. Wigert

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Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.
Larry Wilde in The Merry Book of Christmas

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

God's visit to earth took place in an animal shelter with no attendants present and nowhere to lay the newborn king but a feed trough. ... For just an instant the sky grew luminous with angels, yet who saw the spectacle? Illiterate hirelings who watched the flocks of others, "nobodies" who failed to leave their names...
Philip Yancy

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"Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight." Unknown .

"Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
Norman Vincent Peale

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

"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 day that holds all time together."
Alexander Smith .

"A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
Benjamin Franklin .

"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

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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

"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

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving .

"So remember while December Brings the only Christmas day, In the year let there be Christmas In the things you do and say." Unknown

"Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more." Phillips Brooks

"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.

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"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

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

"Love came down at Christmas; Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars and angels gave the sign." Christina Rossetti .

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. Bill McKibben

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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love Hamilton Wright Mabie

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month Harlan Miller

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts Janice Maeditere.

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.
Jessica Archmint.

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flam of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving

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

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

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

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There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions. Bill Mckibben

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other. Burton Hillis

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 a time when you get homesick - even when you’re home. Carol Nelson

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens

A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world!. Charles Dickens

Love came down at Christmas; Love all lovely, love divine; Love was born at Christmas, Stars & angels gave the sign. Christina Rossetti

Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas.
Dale Evans