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Christmas Quotes
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 Mathhew Adams
Here is my Favorite
Christmas Quotes
There is no ideal Christmas; only the
one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your
values, desires, affections, traditions.
-- Bill McKibben,
Author, Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For
a More Joyful Christmas
Christmas waves a magic wand over this
world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
-- Norman Vincent Peale
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
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
Christmas, children, is not a date. It
is a state of mind.
-- Mary Ellen Chase
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration
is being wreathed in smiles.
-- Unknown Quote
If there is no joyous way to give a
festive gift, give love away.
-- Unknown Quote
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
Why does Scrooge love Rudolph the
Red-Nosed Reindeer? Because every buck is dear to him
-- Unknown Quote
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
Many banks have a new kind of
Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save
money to pay for last year's gifts.
-- Unknown
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
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
The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise
men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They
invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
-- O. Henry
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
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
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it
all the year.
--Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Song
Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your
money or your feet.
-- Unknown
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 best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the
presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
-- Burton Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)
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! 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
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
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas
every day.
-- Helen Steiner Rice
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
There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake
Christmas morning and not be a child.
-- Erma Bombeck (I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal
Depression)
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in
jars and open a jar of it every month.
-- Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)
Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece
of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
-- Freya Stark ("The Wise Men" Time and Tide)
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 Saviour, 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.
-- St. Luke ii. 10-12
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
A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.
-- Unknown Quote
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
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 not the firelight's glow. It's the warmth
that comes to the hearts of men when the Christmas spirit
returns again.
-- Unknown Quote
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind;
Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
-- Helen Steiner Rice
From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by
Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897
We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the
communication below, expressing at the same time our great
gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the
friends of The Sun:
"Dear Editor--I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety-fifth Street
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been
affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not
believe except they see. They think that nothing can be
which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All
minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are
little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect,
an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless
world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of
grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
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 child-like 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.
Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe
in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in
all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but
even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would
that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign
that there is no Santa Claus. 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.
You 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.
Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside
that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and
glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this
world there is nothing else real and abiding.
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.
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
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
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 the season for kindling the fire of
hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the
heart.
-- Washington Irving
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
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
He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find
Christmas under a tree.
-- Sunshine Magazine
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
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My vote is to have Christmas traditions all year round. You see at
Christmas time most people at least the ones I have met, always change just a
little for the better around Christmas. I do not know whether or not it is the
great yuletide Christmas carols, the festive atmosphere every where you go, or just some
hidden part in all of us that screams out,