Christmas Quotes - The True Meaning Of Christmas
"This is Christmas: not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not
even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous
gift, the Christ."
- Frank McKibben
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
- Hamilton Wright Mabi
"As long as we know in our hearts what Christmas ought to be, Christmas is."
- Eric Sevareid
"Christmas is a day of meaning and traditions, a special day spent in the warm circle of family and friends."
- Margaret Thatcher
"Christmas is a time when you get homesick - even when you're home."
- Carol Nelson
"Christmas is the keeping-place for memories of our innocence."
- Joan Mills
"It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air."
- William Turner Ellis
"Christmas is based on an exchange of gifts: the gift of God to man -
his unspeakable gift of his son Jesus; and the gift of man to God - when
we present our bodies as a living sacrifice and, like the Macedonians,
first give ourselves to God. No one has kept or can keep Christmas until
he has had a part in this two-way transaction."
- Vance Havner
"Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first."
- George Matthew Adams
"To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others."
- Henry C. Link
"Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone."
- Charles Schulz
"Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive."
- Stephen Fry
"This time of year means being kind to everyone we meet, To share a smile with strangers we may pass along the street."
- Betty Black
"Christmas is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas."
- Dale Evans
"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
"Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most."
- Ruth Carter Stapleton
"Christmas has lost its meaning for us
because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an
observance. We must prepare for an experience."
- Handel H. Brown
"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."
- George F. McDougall
"For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind."
- Loring A. Schuler
"Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind."
- Mary Ellen Chase
"Christmas is the day that holds all time together."
- Alexander Smith
"Are you willing to believe that love is the strongest thing in the
world - stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death -
and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred
years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love? Then you can
keep Christmas."
- Henry Van Dyke
"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 waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"Christmas is the happiness that lights our children's eyes. Christmas
is a song of bells ringing through the skies. Christmas is a time of
peace, of contentment deep within, A time of love and silent hope that
years will never dim."
- Sherrill Thompson
"Christmas is the time to let your heart do the thinking."
- Patricia Clafford
"Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts."
- Janice Maeditere
"Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body."
- Garry Moore
"Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year -
and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority."
- William John Cameron
"Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a
headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary
defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts."
- Lenora Mattingly Weber
"Christmas is a bridge. We need bridges as the river of time flows past.
Today's Christmas should mean creating happy hours for tomorrow and
reliving those of yesterday."
-
Gladys Tabor
"Christmas is forever, not for just one day, for loving, sharing,
giving, are not to put away like bells and lights and tinsel, in some
box upon a shelf. The good you do for others is good you do yourself."
- Norman Wesley Brooks
"Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child."
- William Saroyan
"The Christmas spirit - love - changes hearts and lives."
- Pat Boone
"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 Greetings Quotes
"This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone."
- Taylor Caldwell
"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
"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
"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
"The world's alive with Christmas joy! Come join the merry
throng. You'll find upon your lips a smile, within your heart a song."
- Nadine Brothers Lybarger
"I love the Christmas-tide and yet, I notice this each year I live; I
always like the gifts I get, but how I love the gifts I give!"
- Carolyn Wells
"Whatever else be lost among the years, let us keep Christmas still a
shining thing: Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, let us hold
close one day, remembering its poignant meaning for the hearts of men.
Let us get back our childlike faith again."
- Grace Noll Crowell
"Peace on Earth will come to stay, when we live Christmas every day."
- Helen Steiner Rice
"Remember: this December, that love weighs more than gold!"
Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
"At Christmas play and make good cheer, for Christmas comes but once a year."
- Thomas Tusser
"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