Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 3

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

I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round, as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable 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, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.

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

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.

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.

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

There has been only one Christmas - the rest are anniversaries.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it ''Christmas'' and went to church; the Jews called it ''Hanukkah'' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say ''Merry Christmas!'' or ''Happy Hanukkah!'' or (to the atheists) ''Look out for the wall!''

Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.

It is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air.

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.

A Christmas gambol oft could cheer
The poor man''s heart through half the year.

For centuries men have kept an appointment with Christmas. Christmas means fellowship, feasting, giving and receiving, a time of good cheer, home.

Christmas is the gentlest, loveliest festival of the revolving year - and yet, for all that, when it speaks, its voice has strong authority.

Remember
This December,
That love weighs more than gold!

Isn''t it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don''t know what exactly, but it''s something that you don''t mind so much not having at other times.

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?

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age.

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.

A Christmas candle is a lovely thing;
It makes no noise at all,
But softly gives itself away.

May Peace be your gift at Christmas and your blessing all year through!

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: "Why, this is Christmas Day!"

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

Christmas is not as much about opening our presents as opening our hearts.

Only in souls the Christ is brought to birth,
And there He lives and dies.

Perhaps the best Yuletide decoration is being wreathed in smiles.

Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer.... Who''d have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously?

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

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself...