I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.
Christmas Quotes
The magi, as you know, were wise men – wonderfuly wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
A certain wicked priest, when he was chanting the evening prayers on Christmas Eve, said “We have to do all this singing although Mary had only one child. What would it be like if she had had more? We’d have to scream ourselves to death!”
He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, […]
Do give books – religious or otherwise – for Christmas. They’re never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.
There are some people who want to throw their arms round you just because it’s Christmas, there are other people who want to strangle you just because its Christmas.
Christmas won’t be Christmas without any presents.
Late one Christmas day a resident of the posh community of Hillsborough, California accompanied by his wife and children, set out to sing carols for the neighbors. As they were tuning up outside their first stop, the woman of the house came to the door, looking distraught. “Look, fella,” she said, “I’m just too busy. […]
Once in royal David’s city Stood a lowly cattle shed, Where a Mother laid her Baby In a manger for His bed: Mary was that Mother mild, Jesus Christ her little Child.
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
