1. "I in some cases think we expect excessively of Christmas Day. We attempt to pack into it the long-overdue debts of charity and humankind of the entire year. With respect to me, I jump at the chance to take my Christmas a little at any given moment, all as the year progressed. What's more, hence I float along into the occasions – let them overwhelm me out of the blue – getting up some fine morning and all of a sudden saying to myself: 'Why this is Christmas Day!'" ~ David Grayson
2. "It's starting to look a great deal like Christmas;
Before long the chimes will begin,
Also, the thing that will influence them to ring
Is the ditty that you sing
Ideal inside your heart."
~ Meredith Willson, "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"
3. "Christmas present proposals: to your foe, absolution. To an adversary, resilience. To a companion, your heart. To a client, benefit. To all, philanthropy. To each youngster, a great illustration. To yourself, regard." ~ Oren Arnold
4. "He who has no Christmas in his heart will never discover Christmas under a tree." ~ Charlotte Carpenter
5. "Presents of time and love are definitely the fundamental elements of a genuinely cheerful Christmas." ~ Peg Bracken
6. "Rather than being a period of bizarre conduct, Christmas is maybe the main time in the year when individuals can comply with their common driving forces and express their actual opinions without feeling unsure and, maybe, absurd. Christmas, to put it plainly, is about the main shot a man must act naturally." ~ Francis C. Farley
7. "It is Christmas in the heart that places Christmas noticeable all around." ~ W.T. Ellis
8. "Christmas waves an enchantment wand over this world, and see, everything is milder and more wonderful." ~ Norman Vincent Peale
9. "Christmas now encompasses us,
Joy is all over the place
Our hands are occupied with many errands
As songs fill the air."
~ Shirley Sallay
10. "Each sight, each stable of Christmas
What's more, scents grand
Make hearts and appearances glad
This grand Christmastime."
~ Carice Williams
11. "Favored is the season which draws in the entire world in a trick of affection!" ~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
12. "Christmas isn't as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts." ~ Janice Maeditere
13. "Love is what's in the stay with you at Christmas on the off chance that you quit opening presents and tune in." ~ Author obscure, credited to a 7-year-old named Bobby
14. "I wish we could set up a portion of the Christmas soul in jugs and open a jug of it consistently." ~ Harlan Miller
15. "Christmas is the period of happiness, of the occasion, welcome traded, of present giving, and of families joined together." ~ Norman Vincent Peale
16. "Christmas is most genuinely Christmas when we praise it by giving the light of adoration to the individuals who require it most." ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton
17. "Uplifting news from paradise the blessed messengers bring,
Happy news to the earth they sing:
To us this day a tyke is given,
To crown us with the delight of paradise."
~ Martin Luther
18. "The best of all presents around any Christmas tree: the nearness of a glad family all wrapped up in each other." ~ Burton Hillis
19. "Most likely the reason we as a whole go so haywire at Christmas time with the unending unreasonable and regularly senseless purchasing of presents is that we don't exactly know how to articulate our affection." ~ Harlan Miller
20. "For quite a long time men have kept a meeting with Christmas. Christmas implies partnership, devouring, giving and getting, a period of optimism, home." ~ W. J. Tucker
21. "Christmas isn't only a period for the party and joyful making. It is more than that. It is a period for the thought of everlasting things. The Christmas soul is a soul of giving and excusing." ~ J. C. Penney
22. "I heard the chimes on Christmas Day
Their old, recognizable songs play,
Furthermore, wild and sweet
The words rehash
Of tranquility on earth, positive attitude to men!"
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
23. "I adore the Christmas-tide, but then,
I see this, every year I live;
I generally like the endowments I get,
In any case, how I cherish the endowments I give!"
~ Carolyn Wells
24. "Humanity is an incredible, a tremendous family. This is demonstrated by what we feel in our souls at Christmas." ~ Pope John XXIII
25. "Give us a chance to have music for Christmas…
Sound the trumpet of bliss and resurrection;
Give each of us a chance to attempt, with a melody in our souls,
To expedite peace to men earth."
~ Mildred L. Jarrell
26. "Christmas isn't a period or a season however a perspective. To esteem peace and cooperative attitude, to be plenteous in leniency is to have the genuine soul of Christmas." ~ Calvin Coolidge
27. "I don't ponder things. It's tied in with regarding each other, it's about the Christian ethic, it's about generosity." ~ Carrie Fisher
28. "What is Christmas? It is a delicacy for the past, fearlessness for the present, seek after what's to come. It is an intense wish that each container may flood with endowments rich and unceasing and that each way may prompt peace." ~ Agnes M. Pharo
29. "May Christmas loan an uncommon appeal
To all your opportunity to do.
What's more, may the season light your direction
To expectations and dreams over again."
~ Garnett Ann Schultz, "My Christmas Wish"
30. "I'm longing for a white Christmas,
Much the same as the ones I used to know,
Where the treetops flicker
Also, youngsters tune in
To hear sleigh chimes in the snow."
~ Irving Berlin
31. "I will respect Christmas in my heart, and attempt to keep everything the year." ~ Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol
32. "What's more, the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet super cold in the snow, stood confounding and perplexing, how might it be so? It came without strips. It came without labels. It came without bundles, boxes, or sacks. Furthermore, he astounded and baffled 'till his puzzler was sore. At that point, the Grinch thought of something he hadn't sometime recently. Imagine a scenario where Christmas, he thought, doesn't originate from a store. Imagine a scenario where Christmas, maybe, implies somewhat more." ~ Dr. Seuss.
33. "The joyful family gatherings–
The old, the extremely youthful;
The peculiarly flawless way they
Orchestrate in ditties sung.
For Christmas is custom time–
Customs that review
The valuable recollections as the years progressed,
The equivalence of all."
~ Helen Lowrie Marshall
34. "Christmas is everlasting, not for only one day,
for adoring, sharing, giving, are not to secure
like ringers and lights and tinsel, in some crate upon a rack.
The great you improve the situation others is great you do yourself."
~ Norman Wesley Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas"
35. "This season implies being thoughtful
to everybody we meet,
To impart a grin to outsiders
we may go along the road."
~ Betty Black
36. "Until one feels the soul of Christmas, there is no Christmas. All else is outward display– so much tinsel and enrichments. For it isn't the holly, it isn't the snow. It isn't the tree not the firelight's shine. The glow goes to the hearts of men when the Christmas soul returns once more." ~ Unknown
37. "There is a Christmas tune upon the air,
There is a delight natural inside the heart;
An inward feeling of peace, a heavenly light
Lights up life and separates nowadays."
~ Edna Greene Hines
38. "I am not the only one by any stretch of the imagination, I thought. I was never alone by any means. Also, that, obviously, is the message of Christmas. We are never alone. Not when the night is darkest, the breeze coldest, the world apparently generally unconcerned. For this is as yet the time God picks." ~ Taylor Caldwell
39. "Christmas in Bethlehem. The antiquated dream: a cool, starry evening made splendid by a wonderful star, the possess a scent reminiscent of incense, shepherds and insightful men tumbling to their knees in the love of the sweet child, the incarnation of impeccable love." ~ Lucinda Franks
40. "Is it accurate to say that you will trust that adoration is the most grounded thing on the planet – more grounded than abhor, more grounded than abhorrent, more grounded than death – and that the favored life which started in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years back is the picture and brilliance of the Eternal Love? At that point, you can keep Christmas." ~ Henry Van Dyke
41. "Ask your kids two inquiries this Christmas. To start with: What would you like to provide for others for Christmas? Second: What do you need for Christmas? The primary cultivates liberality of heart and outward core interest. The second can breed childishness if not tempered by the first." ~ Author Unknown
42. "Favor us Lord, this Christmas, with the quietness of the psyche; Teach us to be patient and dependably to be thoughtful." ~ Helen Steiner Rice
43. "Christmas! The very word conveys euphoria to our souls. Regardless of how we may fear the surge, the long Christmas records for presents and cards to be purchased and given– when Christmas Day comes there is as yet the same warm inclination we had as youngsters, a similar warmth that envelops our hearts and our homes." ~ Joan Winmill Brown
44. "Christmas – that enchantment cover that wraps itself about us, that something so immaterial that it resembles an aroma. It might weave a spell of sentimentality. Christmas might be a day of devouring, or of supplication, yet dependably it will be a day of recognition – a day in which we consider all that we have ever adored." ~ Augusta E. Rundel
45. "Christmas day is a day of satisfaction and philanthropy. May God make you exceptionally rich in both." ~ Phillips Brooks
46. "Christmas is completing a touch of something additional for somebody." ~ Charles Schulz
47. "Christmas, my kid, is love in real life." ~ Dale Evans
48. "Off to the other side sits a gathering of shepherds. They sit noiselessly on the floor, maybe confused, maybe in wonderment, no uncertainty in astonishment. Their night watch had been hindered by a blast of light from paradise and an orchestra of blessed messengers. God goes to the individuals who have sufficient energy to hear him– et cetera this cloudless night he went to straightforward shepherds." ~ Max Lucado
Christmas Wishes:
Funny
- "Santa Clause Claus has the correct thought. Visit individuals once per year." – Victor Borge
- "The Supreme Court has decided that they can't have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.”? Jay Leno
- “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” – Garrison Keillor
- “I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.” – Bernard Manning
- “The main reason Santa is so jolly is that he knows where all the bad girls live.”? George Carlin
- “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
- “I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.” – Shirley Temple
Spiritual
- “He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.” – Roy L. Smith
- “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss
- “Christ was born in the first century, yet he belongs to all centuries. He was born a Jew, yet He belongs to all races. He was born in Bethlehem, yet He belongs to all countries.” – George W. Truett
- “Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.” – Janice Maeditere
- “Mankind is a great, an immense family … This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.” – Pope John Paul XXIII
- “Love the giver more than the gift.” – Brigham Young
- “Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.” – Norman Vincent Peale
Inspirational
- “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
- “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, CBS News journalist
- “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, 30th president of the United States
- “Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.” – Mary Ellen Chase
- “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
- “Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.” – Larry Wilde
- “I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” – Charles Dickens