John Greenleaf Whittier
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.
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George F. McDougall
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.
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Taylor Caldwell
We are never alone.
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Eric Sevareid
As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is.
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Burton Hillis, Better Homes and Gardens
The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
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Andy Rooney
The best Christmas trees come very close to exceeding nature.
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Wilfred A. Peterson, The Art of Living
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.
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Ruth Carter Stapleton
Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.
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Dale Evans Rogers
Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.
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Hamilton Wright Mabie
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
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A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.
Eva Logue
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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
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Born in a stable,
Cradled in a manger,
In the world His hands have made,
Born a stranger.
Christine Georgina Rossetti
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Christianity is not a religion, it is a relationship.
Dr. Thieme
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Christmas living is the best kind of Christmas giving.
Van Dyke
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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
Henry David Thoreau
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I never realized God's birth before,
How He grew likest God in being born...
Such ever love's way--to rise, it stoops.
Robert Browning
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The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants.
John Andrew Holmes
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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
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Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home.
Carol Nelson
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He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
Roy L. Smith
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Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home!
Charles Dickens
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The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
Mencius
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We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.
Cotvos
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The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Emerson
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The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Selfishness makes Christmas a burden;
Love makes it a delight.
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Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
Lenore Hershey
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The joy of brightening a child's heart creates the magic of Christmas.
W. C. Jones
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I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. Oh, tell me I may sponge away the writing on this stone!
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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"It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
Guillaume Apollinaire
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Seek joy in what you give... not in what you get.
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Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty;
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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The very purpose of Christ's coming into the world was that He might offer up His life as a sacrifice for the sins of men. He came to die. This is the heart of Christmas.
Rev. Billy Graham
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Christmas is telling time--wondering time. Wonder enough about it, and you'll know, and you'll tell about it....
Roy Rogers
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Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
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I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
Charles Dickens
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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, The Merry Book of Christmas
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Christmas is 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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And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
Dr. Seuss
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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
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People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.
Ogden Nash
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Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
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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
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I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
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Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence.
Joan Mills
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
Garry Moore
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Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Washington Irving
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I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
Harlan Miller
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I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.
E.M. Forster
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Oh! lovely voices of the sky
Which hymned the Saviour's birth,
Are ye not singing still on high,
Ye that sang, "Peace on earth"?
Felicia Hemans
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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. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!"
David Grayson
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Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
Mary Ellen Chase
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I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; kind, forgiving, charitable time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.
Charles Dickens
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Christmas is a spark that ignites in someone's heart.
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How many angels are there?
One--who transforms our life--is plenty.
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At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year
Thomas Tusser
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O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine!
To fold a world in the embrace of God!
Guy Wetmore Carryl
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For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.
Loring A. Schuler
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Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people once a year.
Victor Borge
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Peace on earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day.
Helen Steiner Rice
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Santa Claus wears a Red Suit, He must be a communist. And a beard and long hair, Must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
Arlo Guthrie
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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
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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. Pahro
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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
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Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
Pope John XXIII
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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
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Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.
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Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends.
Margaret Thatcher
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Jesus is the reason for the season!
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What can I give Him,
Poor as I am?
If I were a shepherd
I would bring a lamb.
If I were a Wise Man
I would do my part.
Yet what can I give Him?
I give Him my heart.
Christina Rossetti
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Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush,
rather than a last-minute rush.
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God grant you the light in Christmas, which is faith;
the warmth of Christmas, which is love;
the radiance of Christmas, which is purity;
the righteousness of Christmas, which is justice;
the belief in Christmas, which is truth;
the all of Christmas, which is Christ.
Wilda English
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It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
Van Dyke
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Remembrance, like a candle, burns brightest at Christmastime.
Charles Dickens
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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
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You know you're getting old, when Santa starts looking younger.
Robert Paul
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I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
Bernard Manning
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Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance - each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Deborah Whipp
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"A merry Christmas, Bob!" said Scrooge, with an earnestness that could not be mistaken, as he clapped him on the back. "A merrier Christmas, Bob, my good fellow, than I have given you for many a year! I'll raise your salary, and endeavour to assist your struggling family, and we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a Christmas bowl of smoking bishop, Bob! Make up the fires, and buy another coal-scuttle before you dot another i, Bob Cratchit.
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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Which Christmas is the most vivid to me? It's always the next Christmas.
Joanne Woodward
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Let me see if I've got this Santa business straight. You say he wears a beard, has no discernible source of income and flies to cities all over the world under cover of darkness? You sure this guy isn't laundering illegal drug money?
Tom Armstrong
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Before the ice is in the pools, before the skaters go, or any cheek at nightfall is tarnished by the snow, before the fields have finished, before the Christmas tree, wonder upon wonder will arrive to me!
Emily Dickenson
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Merry Christmas, Nearly Everybody!
Ogden Nash
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Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.
Francis C. Farley
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