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
What do you call people who are afraid of Santa Claus?
Claustrophobic.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold,
everything is softer and more beautiful.
--Norman Vincent Peale
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a
conspiracy of love.
--Hamilton Wright Mabi
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
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
If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.
--Unknown
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
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
>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
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
The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot 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 Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.
--Unknown
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
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
Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us
to be patient and always to be kind.
--Helen Steiner Rice
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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 scepticism of a sceptical 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
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