Let us remember that the Christmas heart is a giving heart, a wide open heart that thinks of others first. The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world of the healing medicine of love which has transformed all […]
Christmas Quotes
O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie; Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
I have often thought, says Sir Roger, it happens very well that Christmas should fall out in the middle of winter.
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 […]
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.
It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself. (“A Christmas Carol”)
