Keeping Christmas !

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

 

 

~ Henry Van Dyke

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

 

True Christmas !

Christmas is most truly Christmas when we celebrate it by giving the light of love to those who need it most.

 

~ Ruth Carter Stapleton

Become a Child at Christmas Time !

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

~  Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas - One's Home in Heart

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all,  but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

 

 

~ Freya Stark

 ("The Wise Men" Time and Tide)

Christmas Spirit !!

Wouldn't life be worth the living
Wouldn't dreams be coming true
If we kept the Christmas spirit
All the whole year through?

 

~ Unknown

Love Christmas !!

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

 

~ Unknown

Touching Christmas Quote !

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

 

~ Helen Steiner Rice

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

Christmas - Piece of One's Home !

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

 

 

~ Freya Stark

 ("The Wise Men" Time and Tide)

A Christmas Candle !!

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 Spirit Every Month !

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.

 

~ Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)

Christmas - The Word Of Joy !

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts. No matter how we may dread the rush, the long Christmas lists for gifts and cards to be bought and given--when Christmas Day comes there is still the same warm feeling we had as children, the same warmth that enfolds our hearts and our homes.

 

~ Joan Winmill Brown

Christmas Day - A Day of Joy !

"Christmas Day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both."

 

~ Phillips Brooks.