Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 17

Let Christmas not become a thing Merely of merchant's trafficking, Of tinsel, bell and holly wreath,
And surface pleasure, but beneath,
The childish glamour, let us find Nourishment for soul and mind.
Let us follow kinder ways Through our teeming human maze, And help the age of peace to come From a Dreamer's martyrdom.

Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.

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.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

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.

Wouldn''''t life be worth the living Wouldn''''t dreams be coming true If we kept the Christmas spirit All the whole year through?

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!

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

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

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.

Nothing''''s as mean as giving a little child something useful for 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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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?

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...

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

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!

''''Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!

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

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.