Christmas Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 7

Next to a circus there ain''t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

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

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

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

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.

Christmas is a race to see which gives out first - your money or your feet.

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

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

Many banks have a new kind of Christmas club in operation. The new club helps you save money to pay for last year''s gifts.

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.

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!

Mother decided that 10-year-old Cathy shoud get something practical for Christmas. Suppose we open a savings account for you? mother suggested. Cathy was delighted. It''s your account, darling, mother said as they arrived at the bank, so you fill out the application. Cathy was doing fine until she came to the space for Name of your former bank. After a slight hesitation, she put down Piggy.

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.

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

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.

Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we''re here for something else besides ourselves.

Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer in general, her organization has not received any complaints about how Santa Claus treats his reindeer.

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

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.

Christmas, ''my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it''s ''Christmas.

It comes every year and will go on forever. And along with Christmas belong the keepsakes and the customs. Those humble, everyday things a mother clings to, and ponders, like Mary in the secret spaces of her heart.

Love came down at Christmas,
Love all lovely, Love Divine;
Love was born at Christmas;
Star and angels gave the sign.

Christmas has lost its meaning for us because we have lost the spirit of expectancy. We cannot prepare for an observance. We must prepare for an experience.

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.

Christmas is the day that holds all time together.

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.

If Ifs and Buts were candies and nuts, we''d all have a merry Christmas.

If there is no joyous way to give a festive gift, give love away.

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.

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