Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 13

Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

Memories, important yesterdays, were once todays. Treasure and notice today.

Even before Christmas has said Hello, it''s saying ''Buy Buy''.

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

Christmas - that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance - -a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved.

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulders; and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, the Mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.

We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.

I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding school where we are forever working at our arithmetical slates, to take, and give a rest.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They''re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Christmas happens everywhere every time someone reaches out to touch another life with love.

Christmas is the day that holds time together.

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

I am not alone at all, I thought. I was never alone at all. And that, of course, is the message of Christmas. We are never aone. Not when the night is darkest, the wind coldest, the word seemingly most indifferent. For this is still the time God chooses.

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

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.

There seems a magic in the very name of Christmas.

Christmas is here, Merry old Christmas, Gift-bearing Christmas, Day of grand memories, King of the year!

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!

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Good news from heaven the angels bring,
Glad tidings to the earth they sing:
To us this day a child is given,
To crown us with the joy of heaven.

Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii''s way, To say Merry Christmas to you.

I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They''re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

May you have the gladness of Christmas which is hope; The spirit of Christmas which is peace; The heart of Christmas which is love.

Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.

Were I a philosopher, I should write a philosophy of toys, showing that nothing else in life need to be taken seriously, and that Christmas Day in the company of children is one of the few occasions on which men become entirely alive.

O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, come forth from deep within me with Christmas luminous beauty.

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

God Bless Christmas!

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