Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 18

People can't concentrate properly on blowing other people,
To pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!

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.

Oh! lovely voices of the sky Which hymned the Saviour''''s birth, Are ye not singing still on high, Ye that sang, Peace on earth?

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ''''till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn''''t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn''''t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.

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.