Christmas - Good for All !

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 W. Brooks, "Let Every Day Be Christmas"

Christmas - A Magical Season !

There is no ideal Christmas; only the one Christmas you decide to make as a reflection of your values, desires, affections, traditions.

~ Bill McKibben Author, Hundred Dollar Holiday: The Case For a More Joyful Christmas

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

~ Norman Vincent Peale

Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.

~ Hamilton Wright Mabi

Christmas - A Time to Enjoy !

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas.  Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home. 

 

~ W.J. Ronald Tucker

Christmas bring us close !!

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

Christmas is Sharing !!!

Christmas is a time to expand our giving encompassing the friendless and needy ... near and far. Christmas is sharing.

 

 

~ Patricia Clafford

Enjoy Christmas All the Time !

Heap on the wood!

the wind is chill;

But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep our Christmas merry still.

 

~ Sir Walter Scott

Christmas - Shining Forever !

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

Christmas - A Great Festival !

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.

 

~Eva Logue

Christmas - Feel in Heart !

It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.

 

~ Richard Roberts (Contemporary Christ)

When Christmas Comes.....

Have you any old grudges you would like to pay,
Any wrongs laid up from a bygone day?
Gather them now and lay them away
When Christmas comes.
Hard thoughts are heavy to carry, my friend,
And life is short from beginning to end;
Be kind to yourself, leave nothing to mend
When Christmas comes.

 

 

~ William Lytle ("When Christmas Comes")

Christmas - Bridge of Time Flow

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 (Still Cove Journal)

Spirit of Christmas !

It is the personal thoughtfulness, the warm human awareness, the reaching out of the self to one's fellow man that makes giving worthy of the Christmas spirit.

 

 

~ Isabel Currier

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