Christmas - 16 days to go....

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

~  Charles Schulz

 

Christmas is not just a day, an event to be observed and speedily forgotten. It is a spirit which should permeate every part of our lives.

~  William Parks (Missions)

 

Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.

~  William Saroyan

 

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

~  Mary Ellen Chase (New York Times)

Christmas - 17 days to go....

Fail not to call to mind, in the course of the twenty-fifth of this month, that the Divinest Heart that ever walked the earth was born on that day; and then smile and enjoy yourselves for the rest of it; for mirth is also of Heaven's making.
~  Leigh Hunt

 

 

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...Filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

~  Bess Streeter Aldrich

 

 

Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.
~  Helen Steiner Rice

Christmas - 18 days to go....

Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the  year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish.  Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself.

~  Francis C. Farley

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it.  Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want and their kids pay for it.

~  Richard Lamm

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

~  Hamilton Wright Mabie

Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.

~  Unknown

Christmas - 19 days to go...

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

~  Washington Irving

 

 

Don't expect too much of Christmas Day. You can't crowd into it any arrears of unselfishness and kindliness that may have accrued during the past twelve months.

~  Oren Arnold

 

 

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

~  Louisa May Alcott

Countdown - 20 more days to go....

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow,
We hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago,
And etched on vacant places
Are half-forgotten faces
Of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know.

~  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

("Christmas Fancies" Poems of Power)

 

 

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.
~  Marjorie Holmes

 

 

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.
~   Unknown

Christmas - Just 22 day to go....

Let us keep Christmas beautiful
Without a thought of greed,
That it might live forevermore
To fill our every need,

That it shall not be just a day,
But last a lifetime through,
The miracle of Christmastime
That brings God close to you.

~  Garnett Ann Schultz

 

 

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 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 Matthew Adams (The Christmas Heart)

 

 

Love came down at Christmas;
Love all lovely, love divine;
Love was born at Christmas,
Stars and angels gave the sign.

~  Christina Rossetti

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

Feel Christmas in Heart !

He who has no Christmas in his heart will never find Christmas under a tree.
~   Sunshine Magazine

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
~  Washington Irving

 

 

Christmas, weddings, funerals, graduations, retirements, and births are like speed bumps in life; we slow down, look around, think about our lives, and then once over the bump, we speed up to our usual pace.

~ Allen Lagarbo

Christmas - Time to Rejoice

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

 

 

Christmas comes everyday because to be alive is the greatest gift ever!!!!
~   Unknown

 

 

Christmas time, mistletoe and wine, children singing Christian rhyme, logs on the fire and gifts on the tree, time to rejoice in the good that we see.
~  Cliff

Lovely Christmas Quotes !

"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

 

And the Baron's retainers were blithe and gay, And keeping their Christmas holiday.
~  Thomas Haynes Bayly

 

 

As many mince pies as you taste at Christmas' so many happy months will you have.
~  Old Saying

Christmas Is For All !

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"

 

 

"At Christmas, all roads lead home."
~  Marjorie Holmes

 

 

"When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time.

Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? "
~   G.K. Chesterton

Christmas Season - A Different World !

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

 

 

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

~  Hamilton Wright Mabie

 

 

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

~  Phillips Brooks

Christmas - A Glow of Happiness !

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

Christmas - This Time Of Year !

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")

 

 

This is Christmas : not the tinsel, not the giving and receiving, not even the carols, but the humble heart that receives anew the wondrous gift, the Christ.

 

~  Frank McKibben

Open Your Heart For Christmas !

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