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~ Washington Irving
~ Allen Lagarbo
Merry Christmas 2007 - Free Christmas Quotes, Celebrating Xmas Stories, Free Gift Ideas and Xmas Carols.
~ Allen Lagarbo
Christmas is the one time of year when you can count on smiling faces and bright lights and awesome gifts and giant twinkling trees and family reunions and childish games and believing in that old man that you know doesn't exist. Christmas is the time when dreams come true.
~ Unknown
"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
The time draws near the birth of Christ;
The moon is hid; the night is still;
The Christmas bells from hill to hill
Answer each other in the mist.
~ Alfred, Lord Tennyson "In Memoriam"
Best of all, Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
~ George F. McDougall
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
~ Phillips Brooks
Mankind is a great, an immense family... This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.
~ Pope John XXIII
When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things-not the great occasions-give off the greatest glow of happiness.
~ Bob Hope
Christmas is the day that holds all time together.
~ Alexander Smith
This time of year means being kind,
to everyone we meet,
To share a smile with strangers,
we may pass along the street.
~ Betty Black ("This Time of Year")
~ Frank McKibben
Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years... Underneath all the bulging bundles is this beating Christmas heart.
~ George Mathhew Adams
At Christmas….
A man is at his finest towards the finish of the year;
He is almost what he should be when the Christmas season's here;
Then he's thinking more of others than he's thought the months before,
And the laughter of his children is a joy worth toiling for.
He is less a selfish creature than at any other time;
When the Christmas spirit rules him he comes close to the sublime...
Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.
~ Unknown
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.
~ Charles Dickens
At Christmas I no more desire a rose,
Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled shows;
But like of each thing that in season grows.
Christmas is more than a day at the end of the year,
More than a day of joy and good cheer...
Christmas is really God's pattern for living,
To be followed each day by unselfish giving...
Then Peace on Earth will come to stay,
When we live Christmas every day.
~ Unknown
Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.
~ Christina Rossetti
I heard the bells on Christmas day
Their old familiar carols play
And mild and sweet the words repeat,
Of peace on earth, good will to men.
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.
"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."