Christmas - A Strong Voice !

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 is for All

Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups 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, Extension

Christmas - Year Long !

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 make you glad.

 

~  John Greenleaf Whittier

Christmas - Once a Year !

At Christmas play and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year.

 

~  Thomas Tusser

"The Farmer's Daily Diet"

What is Christmas ?

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. Pharo

A Christmas Gift !

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree :  the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

 

~ Burton Hillis .

Magic of Christmas !

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.

~  W. C. Jones