CountDown Begins - 23 Days To Go for Xmas....

So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
~  Henry Vaughan

 

"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

 

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. 

~  John Andrew Holmes

 

Christmas - 24 days to go.....

"The giving of gifts is not something man invented. God started the giving spree when he gave a gift beyond words, the unspeakable gift of His Son."
~  Robert Flatt

 

 

For little children everywhere A joyous season still we make; We bring our precious gifts to them, Even for the dear child Jesus' sake.
~  Phoebe Cary

 

 

Selfishness makes Christmas a burden, love makes it a delight."
~   Unknown

Keep Christmas in Heart, All Year Long !

"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

 

 

"Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!"
~  Charles Dickens

 

 

"I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year."
~  Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

Lovely Christmas Quotes !

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

 

It is not the gift, but the thought that counts.
~   Van Dyke

 

Let's approach Christmas with an expectant hush,
 rather than a last-minute rush.

~  Unknown

Christmas - It opens the shut hearts !

I have always thought of Christmas time 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

 

 

The magi, as you know, were wise men - wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
~  O. Henry

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
~  Roy L. Smith

Glorious Face of Beauty - Jesus !

I've seen the face of Jesus...
It was a wondrous sight!
Oh, glorious face of beauty,
oh gentle touch of care;
If here it is so blessed, 
what will it be up there?

~  W. Spencer Walton