Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 2

Christmas is the season when you buy this year's gifts with next year's money.

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.

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year.

I love the Christmas-tide, and yet,
I notice this, each year I live;
I always like the gifts I get,
But how I love the gifts I give!

I can understand people simply fleeing the mountainous effort Christmas has become... but there are always a few saving graces and finally they make up for all the bother and distress.

Once again we find ourselves enmeshed in the Holiday Season, that very special time of year when we join with our loved ones in sharing centuries-old traditions such as trying to find a parking space at the mall. We traditionally do this in my family by driving around the parking lot until we see a shopper emerge from the mall, then we follow her, in very much the same spirit as the Three Wise Men, who 2,000 years ago followed a star, week after week, until it led them to a parking space.

The Church does not superstitiously observe days, merely as days, but as memorials of important facts. Christmas might be kept as well upon one day of the year as another; but there should be a stated day for commemorating the birth of our Saviour, because there is danger that what may be done on any day, will be neglected.

May the spirit of Christmas bring you peace,
The gladness of Christmas give you hope,
The warmth of Christmas grant you love.

There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmastime. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks and cottage cheese in them.

I do like Christmas on the whole.... In its clumsy way, it does approach Peace and Goodwill. But it is clumsier every year.

Sing hey! Sing hey!
For Christmas Day;
Twine mistletoe and holly.
For a friendship glows
In winter snows,
And so let''s all be jolly!

At Christmas play and make good cheer,
For Christmas comes but once a year

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn''t it be a Merry Christmas?

Except the Christ be born again tonight
In dreams of all men, saints and sons of shame,
The world will never see his kingdom bright.

There''s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

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...

Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.

Open your presents at Christmastime but be thankful year round for the gifts you receive.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn''t for any religious reasons. They couldn''t find three wise men and a virgin.

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

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

Oh, for the good old days when people would stop Christmas shopping when they ran out of money.

For the spirit of Christmas fulfils the greatest hunger of mankind.

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.

It is the one season of the year when we can lay aside all gnawing worry, indulge in sentiment without censure, assume the carefree faith of childhood, and just plain "have fun." Whether they call it Yuletide, Noel, Weinachten, or Christmas, people around the earth thirst for its refreshment as the desert traveller for the oasis.

Great little One! whose all-embracing birth
Lifts Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth.

Christmas is for children. But it is for grown-ups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

The message of Christmas is that the visible material world is bound to the invisible spiritual world.

Roses are reddish
Violets are bluish
If it weren''t for Christmas
We''d all be Jewish.