Christmas - A Necessity !

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

 

 

~  Katharine Whitehorn

Everything is Young at Christmas !

The earth has grown old with its burden of care
But at Christmas it always is young,
The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair
And its soul full of music breaks the air,
When the song of angels is sung.

 

 

~ Phillips Brooks

Christmas Opens Shut-up Hearts !

 "But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant 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."

 

~  Charles Dickens

Christmas - Day Of Rememberance

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

Let Christmas Not Be A Thing !

Let Christmas not become a thing
Merely of merchant's trafficking,
Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath
And surface pleasure, but beneath
The childish glamour, let us find
Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways
Through our teeming human maze,
And help the age of peace to come
From a Dreamer's martyrdom.

 

~Madeline Morse

Christmas - A Time To Gift !

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