Christmas is a time when you get homesick — even when you’re home.
~ Carol Nelson
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
~ Maya Angelou
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever.
~ Axel Munthe
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
~ Pindar
The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.
~ Buddy
Christmas is like candy; it slowly melts in your mouth sweetening every taste bud, making you wish it could last forever.
~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.
~ G.K. Chesterton
Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.
~ Dr. Seuss
Christmas … is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.
~ Freya Stark
Christmas is a race to see which gives out first, your money or your feet.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
~ Jimmy Cannon
Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight.
Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.
~ Kin Hubbard
No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas.
~ Robert Kirby
Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit.
~ Helene-Malmsio
Christmas is the season when you buy this year’s gifts with next year’s money.
Remember this December, That love weighs more than gold!
~ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
~ Taylor Caldwell
Christmas is not as much about opening our presents, as opening our hearts.
~ Janice Maeditere
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
In this age of instant coffee, overnight rush deliveries, and 30-second media sound bites, it’s not surprising that children have discovered that their letters to Santa Claus can be sent by email.
~ Patrick Flaherty
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
Perhaps the best Yuletide (Christmas) decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark.
~ Dick Gregory
Alas! How dreary would be the world if there was no Santa Claus! There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence.
~ Francis P. Church
They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
~ Mrs Paul M Ell
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
Giving is an act of generosity. Giving is sowing a seed. The seed will produce great harvest of fruits.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.
~ Herbert Hoover
Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under the Christmas tree.
~ Charlotte Carpenter
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~ Burton Hills
A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.
Be happy with what you have and what you are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to hunt for Happiness.
~ William E. Gladstone
Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.
~ Angelica Hopes
The emphasis in Scripture is not the amount we give, but the attitude with which we give.
~ Dillon Burroughs
I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
~ Muhammad Ali
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
~ Kalu
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
~ John Holmes
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
~ Stephen Fry
I think Christmas is about celebration and come on, on the inside everyone wants to dance.
~ Toby Mac
Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
~ Joan Mills
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~ Harlan Miller
One of the things that Christmas reminds us is that Jesus Christ was once a child.
~ Hark Herald Sarmiento
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
Christmas, just like life itself – will become all that you choose or want it, to be.
~ Eleesha
Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
~ Margaret Thatcher
A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
~ Garrison Keillor
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
Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. ~ Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more….
~ Dr. Seuss
A silent night, a star above, a blessed gift of hope and love. Christmas all Through!
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
Joy resounds in the hearts of those who believe in the miracle of Christmas!
The peace of Christmas fills our hearts, Inspiring many living deeds. It takes our cares and fears away And gives the courage each one needs.
~ Margaret H. Wright
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
So the return of Christmas each December resets my hope. It calms my fears, turning my mind and heart to follow Jesus into the new year committed again to do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God.
~ Rev. Dr. Janet Edward
The spirit of this season Is old, yet ever new; May it be yours on Christmas And last the new year through.
~ Ernest B. McClellan
There are no strangers on Christmas Eve.
~ Adele Comandini and Edward Sutherland. Michael O’Brien
There’ll always be Christmas as long as a light Glows in the window to guide folks at night, As long as a star in the heavens above, Keeps shining down … there’ll be Christmas and love.
~ Edna Jaques
There’s a feeling of goodwill and peace, It’s a time of joyous giving And love is everywhere. What a wonderful time is Christmas!
~ Beverly J. Anderson
There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.
~ Erma Bombeck
They err who thinks Santa Claus comes down through the chimney; he really enters through the heart.
~ Mrs. Paul M. El
This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives a new the wondrous gift, the Christ.
~ Frank McKibben
This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
~ Taylor Caldwell
To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.
~ Henry C. Link
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
Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.
~ Helen Steiner Rice
May we not “spend” Christmas or “observe” Christmas, but rather “keep” it.
~ Peter Marshalloom with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.
~ Bobby
It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.
~ W. T. Ellis
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
~ Peg Bracken
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~ Washington Irving
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Remember, if Christmas isn’t found in your heart, you won’t find it under the tree.
~ Charlotte Carpenter
Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
~ Charles Schulz
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
~ Mary Ellen Chase
Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy … near and far. Christmas is sharing.
~ Patricia Clafford
Christmas is a spirit that flows from one heart to another. It is more precious than rubies and better than gold.
~ Agnes M. Pharo
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
Christmas hath a beauty … lovelier than the world can show.
~ Christina G. Rossetti
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
~ Burton Hillis
At its best, Christmas is a mirror in which we see reflected the very best life can be. Where we see ourselves moved by generosity, inspired by hope, and uplifted by love, not only for ourselves but for the whole evolving universe.
~ Bruce Sanguin
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
~ Marjorie Holmes
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
~ Eric Sevareid
As long as there is Christmas, I truly believe that hope is the greatest of the gifts we will receive.
~ Don Black
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
~ Ruth Carter Stapleton
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
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, we celebrate Christmas.
~ Dale Evans Rogers
The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart.
~ Helen Keller
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