The Christmas tree has taken the place of the altar in too much of our modern Christmas observance.
Christmas Quotes
When Jesus was born, midnight turned to midday; and when he died, midday turned to midnight. When he was born, heaven was lit up with splendor, and from angelic choirs the Bethlehem song was heard. But when he died, heaven put out her brightest light.
It is not even the beginning of Christmas unless it is Christmas in the heart.
We do not believe in the present ecclesiastical arrangement called Christmas. First, because we do not believe in the mass at all, but abhor it. And second, because we find no scriptural warrant for observing any day as the birthday of the Savior. Consequently, its observance is a superstition.
Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, […]
Christmas! ‘Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart.
Then Dickens spoke, and, lo! the vast Unpeopled void stirred into life; The dead world quickened, the mad blast Hushed for an hour its idiot strife… And from the gloom… Old friends and dear came trooping in, And light and laughter filled the room… Voices and faces, shapes beloved, Babbling lips and kindly eyes, Not […]
What I don’t like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
One of the least pleasing effects of modern refinement is the havoc it has made among the hearty old holiday customs. It has completely taken off the sharp touchings and spirited reliefs of these embellishments of life, and worn down society into a more smooth and polished, but certainly less characteristic surface. Many of the […]
Christmas means a spirit of love, a time when the love of God and the love of our fellow men should prevail over all hatred and bitterness, a time when our thoughts and deeds and the spirit of our lives manifest the presence of God.
