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I WILL HONOR Christmas in my heart, and try to
keep it all the year.
-Charles
Dickens
REMEMBER, IF Christmas isn’t found in your
heart, you won’t find it under a tree.
-Charlotte
Carpenter
FOR CENTURIES men have kept an appointment
with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a
time of good cheer, home.
-William
Jewett Tucker
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
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
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
PEACE ON earth and mercy mild are still
possible. On Christmas Eve, all things are possible.
-Gregg
Easterbrook
CHRISTMAS IS a season not only of rejoicing
but of reflection.
-Winston
Churchill
THE WAY you spend Christmas is far more
important than how much.
-Henry
David Thoreau
THE THING about Christmas is that it almost
doesn’t matter what mood you’re in or what kind of a year you’ve had; it’s a fresh
start.
-Kelly
Clarkson
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
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
STARS OF heaven, clear and bright, shine upon
this Christmas light, vaster far than midnight skies are its timeless
mysteries.
-Timothy
Dudley-Smith
FRESHLY CUT Christmas trees smelling of stars
and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
-John J.
Geddes
THE GREAT majority of people will go on
observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas Day with Christmas
gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and some day
suddenly wake up and discover why.
-G.K.
Chesterton
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 here, merry old Christmas,
gift-bearing Christmas, day of grand memories, king of the year!
-Washington
Irving
HOW, 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
DON’T LET the past steal your present. This is
the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
-Taylor
Caldwell
HAVE YOU any old grudges you would like to
pay, any wrongs laid up from a bygone day? -Gather them now and lay them away
when Christmas comes. Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend, and life is
short from beginning to end; be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend when
Christmas comes.
-William
Haines Lytle
CHRISTMAS IS not in tinsel and lights and
outward show. The secret lies in an inner glow. It’s lighting a fire inside the
heart. Good will and joy a vital part. It’s higher thought and a greater plan.
It’s glorious dream in the soul of man.
-Wilferd
Peterson
THERE IS no ideal Christmas; only the one
Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections,
traditions.
-Bill
Mckibben
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
PEACE ON earth will come to stay, when we live
Christmas every day.
-Helen
Steiner Rice
CHRISTMAS WAVES a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
-Norman
Vincent Peale
THE SPIRIT of Christmas is - and hopefully
always will be - about good will and generosity to others, and peace on earth.
-Nick
Rahall
CHRISTMAS IS not a date. It is a state of
mind.
-Mary
Ellen Chase
CHRISTMAS IS the day that holds all time
together.
-Alexander
Smith
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.
-Ray
Stannard Baker
LET NO pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure
thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so
shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.
-Benjamin
Franklin
AT CHRISTMAS play and make good cheer, for
Christmas comes but once a year.
-Thomas
Tusser
CHRISTMAS! THE very word brings joy to our
hearts.
-Joan
Winmill Brown
BLESSED IS the season which engages the whole
world in a conspiracy of love.
-Hamilton
Wright Mabie
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
Langley Bosher
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
THE CHRISTMAS spirit – love - changes hearts
and lives.
-Pat
Boone
BLESSED IS the season which engages the whole
world in a conspiracy of love. It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas
in the air.
-William
Thomas Ellis
CHRISTMAS AND the holidays are the season of
giving. It’s a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.
-Gisele
Bundchen
CHRISTMAS IS a kindling of new fires.
-Gladys
Taber
